If you ever come to Canada or the US, it’s a million times worse here. Despite the strict and clear rules (both directions must pull over and come to a stop), the only thing people remember is “come to a stop”. They panic and forget the pull over / get out of the way part and stop dead wherever they are. Or they are blind and deaf and keep going. Or they pull the front of the car over and focus so much on stopping that the rear end is still sticking out. It is mind numbing.
I used to do this , years before sat navs , driving a ten tonne plus appliance on the bell, through london traffic was awesome.I roadraced /track motorcycles in my early twenties. I got more of a buzz driving appliances . my initial LFB driver training was somewhat limited. i already had an HGV1 when I joined the brigade so i had a one week course which was two days on the bread van then supposedly 3 days on a truck which endnded up as one day, due to breakdowns. back to station , Supposed to do 10 hours driving back from shouts never bothered. got an assesser from croydon out , Turn left out the station , left and left again. Lets have a cup of tea, You are an MD and signed off to drive on Blues and Twos!!!
Reminds me of my gran - learned to drive (never driven before) on ambulances at the tail end of WW2 - guy took her out, left, left, left and that was all the training she got, her provisional license was converted to a full license at the end of the war without ever passing a test.
@@The_FireFighter Each to their own . Once I had done my EFAD I did prefer driving . Didnt mind being in the back as ECO or Medic or spare person . I was retained and at my station we were lucky that there were 20 of us on the books so normally rode with 6 and didnt very often drop to 4 . Was never keen on BA and was more than happy if there were enough on to let the young lads wear !
I did once race my mate down queenstown road from clapham. iwas driving the pump, an old dodge, guvnor was gripping the hand rail with white knuckles. didnt really register until afterwards when we got the biggest dressing down ever starting off with " you pair of CNUTS".
Brilliant driving you need a lot of nerve to drive like that well done it is nice to see most drive obey the law and pull over, well done driver take care everyone.
I like the way you still call it a fire "appliance". They used to in the media here in NZ but now we've got the tedious American fire "truck". What ever happened to fire "engines"?
@@zcharged8294 It is worrying . Alot of people just see the car in front pulling in and take it as an opportunity to overtake and dont check their mirrors first or do a shoulder check .
If the gen public would park legally and sensibly to let big vehicles space to pass, that would help. But no, everybidy is so important that they park their SUV in a middle of road/ pacement/ junction .selfishness impacts emergemcy services trying to save lives.
2:18 - so many people do what the blue Peugeot does on the other side of the road. Despite seeing a blue light vehicle coming towards them, they don't slow down or stop, they carry on and limit opportunities to overtake. Mindless.
@@The_FireFighter I understand that. I would be cautious of capturing the map in your recordings, assuming that crosshair on the map is where the incident occured. It's not impossible to work out where that location is, and a quick Google news search will likely flag up related incidents. I'll caveat this with an assumption that there is an element of GDPR/confidentiality around incidents units are assigned to.
@@jameswars14IF you could work out where we were going and then IF you managed to work out the incident (I highly doubt you could) then did a google search and found out information about that incident then that information is already in the public domain. Nothing I’m sharing there breaches any sort of GDPR.
@The_FireFighter map is clearly plotting at the warehouse in Erith. It's not a criticism, more of a critique. In an unrelated question, do you get any discounts from Ocado? 🤣
I’ll be honest.. as a qualified EFAD this is probably one of the worse blue light runs I’ve seen in a long time! Too many errors to mention, but the contraflow undertake & edging close too vehicles then swerving out was appalling. 🤷🏽
Bore off. The angle of the camera and perspective from the person filming is always going to give the impression of being too close when in fact he wasn't close at all. Would love to see your drives 😴😴😴
@@tagsy1767bore off? What explicitly does efad say about contraflow overtakes? Bore off? Cant perform basic skills correctly….. someone needs to … off, and it isnt those us standing up for basic standards and expectations The fact his own colleagues exclaimed “oofff” three times in this short video demonstrates exactly “how close” he was at times
@@alistairhackney Wasnt it in Bexley Borough ? the map looked like Erith or Belvedere . I know people say they live in Kent in Orpington , Sidcup or Bromley , but like it or not they are in a London Borough and under the Met , LFB and LAS .
Sat Nav’s are pretty bad in London when you’re going at speed. My preference was to get confirmation (as well as knowing myself) from the OIC where I was going.
How do you work in London whilst living in Scotland as a firefighter? Do you travel down for the 4 days and then go back up to Scotland if so do you sleep at the fire station for those 4 days or have to stay somewhere else. I live in the midlands but want to work in the lfb
I travel down for my tour and then go home. Due to an accident the official line of the brigade is nobody is allowed to stay up on station. Unofficially most people in central London do. I know plenty of firefighters from the midlands that commute.
A friend of mine used to be a wholetime firefighter in Staffordshire but lived in Akrotiri RAF village in Cyprus. He used to hitch a ride on an RAF transport plane between the two places to perform his four-day shift rota, lodging with a pal for the duration, and then spend four days sunbathing!
@@The_FireFighter I take it you get the Virgin main line train that goes all the way to Glasgow or nearby? Wish I'd thought of doing it that way when I was interested in the LFB all those years ago, top effort balancing both lives! 👍👍
Don't appreciate the firefighter passenger princess having a go at the driver near the start, very unprofessional. Perhaps they had a lapse of judgement, it happens. All he has done is make them feel worse. Otherwise, top driving!
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It never ceases to amaze me where some people think is a good place to stop for an emergency vehicle.
If you ever come to Canada or the US, it’s a million times worse here. Despite the strict and clear rules (both directions must pull over and come to a stop), the only thing people remember is “come to a stop”. They panic and forget the pull over / get out of the way part and stop dead wherever they are. Or they are blind and deaf and keep going. Or they pull the front of the car over and focus so much on stopping that the rear end is still sticking out. It is mind numbing.
Respect to the driver. 1:28 While under intense pressure he still acknowledges and thanks a considerate driver. 👏
I used to do this , years before sat navs , driving a ten tonne plus appliance on the bell, through london traffic was awesome.I roadraced /track motorcycles in my early twenties. I got more of a buzz driving appliances . my initial LFB driver training was somewhat limited. i already had an HGV1 when I joined the brigade so i had a one week course which was two days on the bread van then supposedly 3 days on a truck which endnded up as one day, due to breakdowns. back to station , Supposed to do 10 hours driving back from shouts never bothered. got an assesser from croydon out , Turn left out the station , left and left again. Lets have a cup of tea, You are an MD and signed off to drive on Blues and Twos!!!
Reminds me of my gran - learned to drive (never driven before) on ambulances at the tail end of WW2 - guy took her out, left, left, left and that was all the training she got, her provisional license was converted to a full license at the end of the war without ever passing a test.
Still don't get how people can miss a big RED truck with flashing lights and a loud siren...., thats right they are idiots
Some people just panic.
Because fire engines have crap blue lights on front especially london trucks just not enough
@@user-ei3dq2dw6i it's more than enough. if you cant see or hear them you shouldn't be driving
@TrophyNZ1 driving second appliance was difficult. People used to pull out after first truck had passed
The one overtaking the car that stopped for the fire engine though - no words!
Top driving. Miss driving now I’m a WM😢
I hated driving. I’d always choose to be on the back given the chance.
Is WM short for “woman”?
@ Watch Manager.
@@The_FireFighter the back is cool too.
@@The_FireFighter Each to their own . Once I had done my EFAD I did prefer driving . Didnt mind being in the back as ECO or Medic or spare person . I was retained and at my station we were lucky that there were 20 of us on the books so normally rode with 6 and didnt very often drop to 4 . Was never keen on BA and was more than happy if there were enough on to let the young lads wear !
LOVE THIS!! Hopefully joining the fire service in the future amazing driving
Good luck
Massive respect to our emergency services
I like the little nod of respect to the ambulance service at 1:37
That was a great drive . Safe and making good progress .
I did once race my mate down queenstown road from clapham. iwas driving the pump, an old dodge, guvnor was gripping the hand rail with white knuckles. didnt really register until afterwards when we got the biggest dressing down ever starting off with " you pair of CNUTS".
😂 guvnor probably wasn’t too well chuffed
Great vid. Love watching it. Great drive. ❤
Thanks 👍
Nice driving lads😊
@@maltesrc thanks.
Shifting!! Quality drive mate
Thanks.
General public has no idea how difficult it is to drive such a heavy vehicle on blue lights compensating for idiots in the road..
And you know do you??
@@Browns553 yes I do..I am advanced police examined driver and HGV driver and more! Lol
Brilliant driving you need a lot of nerve to drive like that well done it is nice to see most drive obey the law and pull over, well done driver take care everyone.
There’s no law to pull over by the way
What an absolute driver 👌
I like the way you still call it a fire "appliance". They used to in the media here in NZ but now we've got the tedious American fire "truck". What ever happened to fire "engines"?
Most firefighters in London call them ‘Fire Engines’ I learnt my trade in a county brigade and we called them appliances there.
What a fantastic 👏 video 📹 to watch Thanks 😊
I’m glad you enjoyed it.
Just came across this; looks like a controlled chaos driving that lol. Massive props to the driver though. I would have hit so much 😂
Bexleyheath, Kent area .
I thought I recognised barnehurst at the very end
when that Toyota overtook the car that pulled over for the appliance 😂😂
Happens all the time.
@ why do they do that when you have your lights and sirens on 😅
@ people don’t always hear or see us. Sometimes their radios are up loud or sometimes they just don’t think.
@@zcharged8294 It is worrying . Alot of people just see the car in front pulling in and take it as an opportunity to overtake and dont check their mirrors first or do a shoulder check .
Nice driving drive!
If the gen public would park legally and sensibly to let big vehicles space to pass, that would help.
But no, everybidy is so important that they park their SUV in a middle of road/ pacement/ junction .selfishness impacts emergemcy services trying to save lives.
Looks like it's driving along the A220 heading into Erith
Could well be. I’m unable to divulge that information. 😉
Amazing driving
Thank you 👍
More like this please :-)
That SUV at the very beginning…😡🤬😡
S1 NHV needs to have their eyes, ears, and driving tested again!
2:18 - so many people do what the blue Peugeot does on the other side of the road. Despite seeing a blue light vehicle coming towards them, they don't slow down or stop, they carry on and limit opportunities to overtake. Mindless.
Good driving
From the map and posting date of this video you can work out what incident this emergency call was. Is this an issue?
I posted it nowhere near the time of the incident. Not even within a few months.
@@The_FireFighter I understand that. I would be cautious of capturing the map in your recordings, assuming that crosshair on the map is where the incident occured. It's not impossible to work out where that location is, and a quick Google news search will likely flag up related incidents. I'll caveat this with an assumption that there is an element of GDPR/confidentiality around incidents units are assigned to.
@@jameswars14IF you could work out where we were going and then IF you managed to work out the incident (I highly doubt you could) then did a google search and found out information about that incident then that information is already in the public domain. Nothing I’m sharing there breaches any sort of GDPR.
@The_FireFighter map is clearly plotting at the warehouse in Erith. It's not a criticism, more of a critique. In an unrelated question, do you get any discounts from Ocado? 🤣
I’ll be honest.. as a qualified EFAD this is probably one of the worse blue light runs I’ve seen in a long time! Too many errors to mention, but the contraflow undertake & edging close too vehicles then swerving out was appalling. 🤷🏽
I always told him he did that and I hate the way he uses the bell. How about you rate my other video (which is me driving)?
Also, in his defence he never had an EFAD refresher where as I had and ended up losing a lot of bad habits like driving too fast etc.
Bore off. The angle of the camera and perspective from the person filming is always going to give the impression of being too close when in fact he wasn't close at all. Would love to see your drives 😴😴😴
@@tagsy1767bore off? What explicitly does efad say about contraflow overtakes?
Bore off? Cant perform basic skills correctly….. someone needs to … off, and it isnt those us standing up for basic standards and expectations
The fact his own colleagues exclaimed “oofff” three times in this short video demonstrates exactly “how close” he was at times
Liked, subscribed and shared your channel and your video 👍🏻🚒
Thanks
@The_FireFighter It's alright mate 👍🏻
Liked & subscribed. Great video 😃😊
I didn't know Del boy got down like that 😅
He does.
Who's pump is this ? Noticed they passed Bexley Fire Stn
I’m not sure I can say to be honest. I’ve just retired but some of them are still working.
@@The_FireFighter happy retirement, mate.
Thanks.
Obviously a rougher area of London as I saw to Asda vans in 400m
It's Kent
@ ahh explains it!
@@alistairhackney Wasnt it in Bexley Borough ? the map looked like Erith or Belvedere . I know people say they live in Kent in Orpington , Sidcup or Bromley , but like it or not they are in a London Borough and under the Met , LFB and LAS .
@@scooby1992 you may be right, i thought it was the Kent area..
EDIT: "Like it or not" So i (possibly) made a mistake and you get snarky...? 🤔
Interesting the passenger seemed to be calling the directions. We have to follow satnav.
Sat Nav’s are pretty bad in London when you’re going at speed. My preference was to get confirmation (as well as knowing myself) from the OIC where I was going.
How do you work in London whilst living in Scotland as a firefighter? Do you travel down for the 4 days and then go back up to Scotland if so do you sleep at the fire station for those 4 days or have to stay somewhere else. I live in the midlands but want to work in the lfb
I travel down for my tour and then go home. Due to an accident the official line of the brigade is nobody is allowed to stay up on station. Unofficially most people in central London do. I know plenty of firefighters from the midlands that commute.
A friend of mine used to be a wholetime firefighter in Staffordshire but lived in Akrotiri RAF village in Cyprus. He used to hitch a ride on an RAF transport plane between the two places to perform his four-day shift rota, lodging with a pal for the duration, and then spend four days sunbathing!
@@The_FireFighter I take it you get the Virgin main line train that goes all the way to Glasgow or nearby? Wish I'd thought of doing it that way when I was interested in the LFB all those years ago, top effort balancing both lives! 👍👍
@ no. I go to/from Edinburgh on LNER or Lumo. I’d only use Virgin (or Avanti) as it is now if I absolutely had to. Overpriced dark/dingy and cramped.
Driving any sort of emergency vehicle in London must be one of the most stressful jobs there is!!
Some driver, just another days graft 😊
driving through the manor 🎉
cool! 😍
Not easy
Terrible siren first one
That’s for following an other appliance.
Very poor use of tones - seems to be just using them at random
Haha. Something I’ve said to him for years and years.
Why are you in the truck
Going to a shout.
Because it's a fire engine, clues in the title 🤣
Don't appreciate the firefighter passenger princess having a go at the driver near the start, very unprofessional. Perhaps they had a lapse of judgement, it happens. All he has done is make them feel worse. Otherwise, top driving!