Due to a few shitty comments I just want to clarify a couple things. -This is a 100% volunteer brigade, the members drop whatever they are doing to attend calls whether thats; work, eating dinner with the family, socializing, playing with their kids etc. The response time is perfectly fine, if not on the fast side for a volly turnout. -The siren doesnt sound after 9pm or before 6am. It is used as a backup for sometimes unreliable pager or cell systems. Normally it will sound 10-30 seconds earlier than a page will come through.
Maybe you could answer my question. Besides the fact that it looks like this station crews exceptionally well. What happens to the bay doors if no one shows up? Will they remain open or are they automated to close after a certain point of inactivity?
@@WillyBillyBoy24 To be honest I cant really remember as I've left a couple of years ago. The doors could possibly be on a timer, but they do have a very good turnout at calls so isnt normally an issue.
Don’t listen to the idiots with the shitty comments, I’m an on call Firefighter in wales and these people don’t have a clue about being oncall firefighter. Keep up the good work 💪🏼
The first appliance is out the door in under 3 minutes. Thats impressive for a retained/volunteer station. There are some full time stations that can't manage that from some of the videos I have seen. Well done folks.
Yeah, I always wonder that with these videos you see of wholetimers. It's taking them over 5mins and you have to account for the video operator getting their phone out etc. I'm retained and our fastest time is 3mins 54secs 🤔
In my experience volunteer departments have a lot more motivation, they don’t get as many calls as a career department so for them it’s haul ass to the station and get a truck out ASAP when they get an actual call. For career departments it’s like “oh, just another medical assist” But when there is a working structure fire they will have wheels out the door 30 seconds lol. Different mentalities.
@@Ukraine2011 My timing was taken from ones the Sirens started and lights came on, nothing was sped up form then. A great turnout time that would put a lot of whole time stations to shame.
Lots of rural areas in New Zealand or towns with mostly volunteer fire brigades use those sirens. pretty cool and you can hear them a damn long way away
In CZ, we stil have siren system - not only for warning people, but for volunteer firefighters - they use different signals for these two purposes. It's a good backup system for main system of notification - normal cellphones (text messages).
It's been a few years for me, but my department's policy was first person in was to engineer the truck, second person was to officer the truck unless a lt. or captain came in quickly. Ranking officers were not to drive, normally. We tried to have all personnel trained to operate although if it was a working fire the truck was usually turned over to an experienced engineer. Ohio state law exempts firefighters and rescue personnel from needing CDL (commercial truck) licenses. I usually made the front seat of the truck except for he night it was 28 below zero F and I was on the tailboard! In many areas, we still have the Civil Defense/fire sirens combined.
Yes, but in places like the UK, Australia and New Zealand you have to be trained in emergency response driving because we don’t like just giving people the keys. We care about the public on the roads, and our crews. Response driving is a skill that needs to be learned correctly.
@@CymruEmergencyResponder The comment says nothing about not being trained for emergency vehicle operation, just that in that state (as with some others) you don't need a CDL (commercial drivers license) to drive a fire department vehicle. It can be very expensive to receive and maintain a CDL and is not practical for small call / volunteer departments. The department I was on for 17 years required extensive classroom and road training before anyone was cleared to drive. Also you were required to be fully trained to operate any pump or other equipment on the vehicle before driving it. Please try to understand the comment before posting a nasty response, we're all on the same team.
Our area, the first driver, drives, which is almost always the Lt. The next officer in is the vehicle officer, unless either a chief shows up, or no other officer shows up, then the most qualified black hat moves up. We are also exempt from CDL requirements on emergency response (so technically getting fuel or service requires a driver with a CDL, of which I am the only one). In reality, if we go through the emergency response training (in all reality just the yard portion of a motor vehicle license test) and the Chief allows, we become apparatus operators. However to drive on response calls, we need pump operations, and in the case of our Quint, aerial operations.
Awesome job. My cousin was Volunteer F.Fighter for the Kawakawa Fire Station. I'm very proud of him. They're incredible people who drop what they're doing to help save lives & fight fires. Some of the emergencies they attend aren't the nicest. I've lived in small towns & impressed with the responses to the fire siren going off
Unless you have served in voluntary work in your community, it is impossible explain to anyone the satisfaction and fulfilment of helping your own community brings to you till you go out and do it yourself. Whether it's working in an office, picking fruit on a local farm or fighting fires - all voluntary, yet being able to meet new people in the process. I myself am a volunteer grounds man I do the work I do because the club where I work needs someone to do the job and I am happy to do it for them - voluntarily. Great video Great bunch of guys
People Not realizing that the 2nd Truck got attached Later on via Radio and Not Pager... Carterton 622 got attached for a Air-Ambulance landing. So it's Not extreme urgent. And given the fact that 622 was able to Go shortly after the 2nd Turnout, it seems perfectly fine. Some people should Just Not comment. Really.
We use lighter horns in my dept (1 for each substation) but we also have the holy-shit-is-going-down air raid horn for special events. Some neighboring depts use that kind of horn full time.
Awesome response time for the first engine! I usually get to open the doors of our station while the third wail of the siren is still going. And I live across the street. Interesting thing is, you have the same siren signal as we have in Germany. Keep up the great service and always return safely from your calls!
That's a great response time, especially by a volunteer company. The standard in our community is 5 minutes from being toned by dispatch. We use a combination air-raid siren and phone/computer app in our case.
6:40 needing a driver. Yeah, that was always the toughest part when I would voluntarily sit out the 1st truck so I knew we could get the second engine or tanker rolling as a driver.
Nice response time you got there. Good job mates. Here in Finland as we actually owned the vfd-station as a private association, we spent a lot of our free time in station. Someone was repairing his car in one of the garages, some people were in sauna, some just eating takeaway food and watching movies. In many cases we responded immediately because station was a social place for us to hang out. First attackers pretty much responded immediately, while the next guys coming in took the tanker if extra water was needed. For bigger fire the 8-seater transporter was collecting extra men from station and switching men in shifts. Good times and awesome people. Asthma stopped my career there because doctor did not let me do "smoke diving" as we call it. Meaning going into burning house with airtanks.
Mike Young we are a rural vol. department with about 34 members now, about 22-25 show up to every call and 15-20 are airpack ready. I wouldn’t say we’re a dying breed, we just need to advertise to the youth better
My dept which is in rural northeastern pa has maybe 10 active members which is super low but we get the job done 99% of the time we are out the door within 5 minutes of dispatch at most
Jakob Rodoski what do you get for mutual aid/auto aid? We’re usually the big group that shows up to calls, but we can always count on a full staffed, airpack ready ladder from the town just south of us on every call, and 1-2 full staffed airpack ready engines from the town just east of us, plus tenders (tankers) from surrounding townships if we need to pull from lakes and other static sources and shuttle water to scene, I’m interested to know your side of things
@@thegaminglegends213 we have good mutual aid depts the funny thing is we are almost always running ambulance calls for one of the other depts which they have multiple medical people but a bunch of issues getting people to want to show up
I was a vol. for many years. Done first-response medical, drove, jaws, etc. I'm a full time medic now. I never regreted being a vol.. If it wasn't for volunteering, I wouldn't be what I am today.
Absolutely love this video, how many guys and gals have their license now for the engine?, used to be a volly at West Melton back in early 90's , loved it, can't any more as a tetraplegic, but still get a buzz watching these video's and knowing how they drop everything whenever and wherever to help people, thank goodness for local brigades
stupid question! i see 3 bays.. and only the 2nd and 3rd opened automatically. Does that have to do with the type of signal sent for Equipment needed? or is it just open up those two all the time?
One of us (voluntary fd) lived in the middle of historic old woodtown we have, that tend to have fire breaking loose pretty often. My buddy actually held his gear back home so he was first to respond in the woodtown... by foot. He had already evacuated people and assessed the situation before we came in to the scene with vehicles. On the way we already knew where to park the trucks and where to pull hoses. It was like, at the blink of an eye everybody was all over the place doing exactly right things because of intel we already had on the way.
Our volunteer department requires all firefighter to get their DZ-in Canada within 1 year of joining. 1st firefighters to the hall get in & respond; once all trucks have cleared the hall, everyone else drive their own vehicles to the scene. We have very quick responses. & we are on a minitor VI pager & whosresponding.com app.
@@timothyj.barron9525 The short time I officered a volly department some jackwagon councilor tried to pass legislation that had a requirement that first responding truck be out of the doors within 4 minutes then 7 minutes for secondary etc then everyone else drives their POV. fascinating enough, when the subject of insurance for all POV's came up it never reached the floor.
I love hearing the siren go off ya know the girls and lads are gearing up, as my mum and hubby have volunteered for 11yrs to the fire service and now retired life members all volunteers in any of Nz services I salute u for your service to our communities
I'm usually the first to the station. Doors and engines first. Then lights and my own gear. We do well for a town of less than 250. Not often under strength
@@EnjoyFirefighting We are a little two truck brigade that's pretty isolated. A small worm up time for the trucks makes them run that much better. Better running truck means we are out the door that much faster. Out the door is more Important than me being geared up. Although I've had to gear up in transit befor. Not in the rules but what you have to do to get it it done
@@hairy-dairyman does that one or two minutes make such a big difference? What kind of apparatus do you have? I don't feel much of a difference at my EMS station, even if we start off with a cold engine and directly get onto the highway
@@EnjoyFirefighting we have a 24 year old pumper tanker (an apliance that has attributes of a tanker and an urban pumper. Ours also has hazmat gear onboard) and a 26 year old tanker (just bushfires but we make it do more). A little heat really helps as they are diesel trucks. They run a little rough on start up.
Yh. Alarm system is hooked up to the lights usually. Saves time having to find the light switch. Makes it safer as you're usually running to the rig. And on a night shift it helps wake you up quicker if youre sleeping. Not many will sleep through sudden bright lights ans alarms
i miss the old siren at our station we have pagers now , we are also volunteer brigade , im like the poor guy running in at 3.40 to see the truck rolling out with a full crew
Was a volunteer firey for 20 years generally a few minutes after pager was activated first arriving fire fighter to the station would activate station siren if no one else rocked up
First appliances out in ~3 minutes Second out in about ~9 minutes Our auxiliary firefighters (like a volunteer, but paid) are 5 - 10 minutes in good areas, impressive response time.
3 minutes?? You're shitting me? A minute is too long. It's litterally going down the fire pole and putting on boots, fire suits and helmet and then jumping into the car...
Looking at the video it seems there were 2 different calls look at time stamp 5:40 where it says it gets attached to call. They are able to crew all but the driver, the driver gets in around 7:00 and the truck is away by about timestamp 8:24. So that's around a 3 min response time as well.
We call our aux firefighters retained in NSW - No air raid sirens used to summon them anymore sadly - although a lot seem to physically remain on the station’s/shed’s.
Normally there’s a siren out the back of the station that when the fire com confirms the fallout and brigade too respond they send a message out and it also goes too the siren
Where I am, you have too complete a drivers course that goes for a week. In that you learn defensive driving, operating in wet conditions responding through traffic lights and all other good stuff, also as driver you get taught the pumps for water because they are quite challenging too control the more lines that get connected too the truck.
Did the drive eventually turn up for the second truck or did somebody just jump in and drive. Only asking because it looked as if they struggled to find first gear
This is not the air raid ww2 signal. This is a fire tsunami signal in NZ although the old tsunami sirens are being phased out they will still use this signal on most of the stations but some do sound the air raid signal aswell. We use this same exact tone for chemical and flood alerts.
Garry Aydon i first thought it was just a training Cuz then the alarm just turns on but damn that station is a bad station they should visit my station in sweden we respond as fast as the alarm turns on even if its a training or false alarm
First class response guys and in excellent time for a VFB. New Zealand I believe. Two things really stand out... It cant possibly the US because A} All the guys were Running and B} None of them were Fat
UK its RTC Road Traffic Collision, used to be RTA - A for Accident, but the cops changed it as it’s usually not an accident, someone has done something wrong
To get a really great Volunteer Fire Deptment Siren you need to go FarmVille,Virginia because the siren sits on top of the FarmVille Police Station and it is heard all over the whole town? I should know I grew up in FarmVille,Va.
Merced Videos not exactly, in this certain jurisdiction, the page for the volunteer’s pagers is linked directly to the house siren, doors, and lights, it proves very useful in needing to get out in a hurry, however, it can also be a hindrance when the dispatcher sends a tone test and the whole process happens
@@MattCraftVidsthis is a Volunteer Fire Brigade, so yes the station is unmanned when the firemen aren’t required, and the Air raid siren is used to summon all staff to the station in the event of a call. As for the first theory - It wouldn’t be necessary to let the whole town know that a manned fire brigade was about to pull out - that’s why they have quieter door warning alarms combined with the truck sirens.
...................I'm trying to figure out a polite way to address this so I will just say this, those trucks carry 5-6 people, there are two and then the tanker with maybe 3 seats at most. 5 got on the first responding. there were 7-9 firefighters in the station AFTER 5 left on the first truck. likely that was easily an 80% turnout of firefighters for that station. can a station end up understaffed and not able to respond? sure but someone is showing up period. in other departments, those who respond to stations sometimes don't end up going because others responded faster. there is also usually always one person with the job of staying behind.
I think it’s an old Castle Castings or Carter air raid siren. Same type used by the UK and Ireland as Early warning during WWII. NZ make knockoffs of castle castings/carter sirens too, so this could be one of them.
For non maned paid call fire station, that response time was quick 👍 Not sure what the firefighters are called there. Ours are called paid-call volunteer firefighters.
EnjoyFirefighting - International Emergency Response Videos my mistake I went off of very old statistics 70 percent of all firefighters in the US are volunteers crazy how time changes things and more firefighters are getting paid to do it.
If you notice there is a guy running at 1:08 he’s just going about his business then that goes off and he is out of that car in a flash and through the door
@@CymruEmergencyResponder here aswell but my point is that it is a requirement for all not just selected drivers both military as well as civilian the difference is for civilian you only require code 10(UK code 2) but military each driver is required to hold advanced driving certificates and individual licenses for each type of emergency vehicle
Very cool guys! I am a volunteer firefighter in Poland too and I am jealous about Your fire dept. building and vehicles! I have a question who is responsible for funding new cars, tools etc.? Is this local government? Do You receive any grant from central/federal authority? Are You using Holmatro hydraulic tools? What's the capacity of water tanker? :D Thank You for answers! :)
The NZ Government funds FENZ (Fire and Emergency New Zealand), most vehicles are funded by FENZ but some brigades or communities will fund a van or ute, in rare cases an appliance. I believe that tanker holds 15,000L
Let's be honest. This is really cool and all but... I feel really bad for the people who just moved into this town and didn't know that on each call at the volunteer station, a tornado siren would go off.
I know you commented on this ages ago but the funny thing is that this isn't a town, it's a city called Hamilton in New Zealand which is one of the main cities in the North Island, all towns and cities in New Zealand have these stations posted around the place, so unless you aren't from New Zealand an Air Raid siren normally just means FD alarm, also we don't have tornado sirens anywhere in the country.
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Due to a few shitty comments I just want to clarify a couple things.
-This is a 100% volunteer brigade, the members drop whatever they are doing to attend calls whether thats; work, eating dinner with the family, socializing, playing with their kids etc. The response time is perfectly fine, if not on the fast side for a volly turnout.
-The siren doesnt sound after 9pm or before 6am. It is used as a backup for sometimes unreliable pager or cell systems. Normally it will sound 10-30 seconds earlier than a page will come through.
Maybe you could answer my question. Besides the fact that it looks like this station crews exceptionally well. What happens to the bay doors if no one shows up? Will they remain open or are they automated to close after a certain point of inactivity?
@Brodie sod the others I like it and that's all that matters in my book.
@@WillyBillyBoy24 To be honest I cant really remember as I've left a couple of years ago. The doors could possibly be on a timer, but they do have a very good turnout at calls so isnt normally an issue.
Don’t listen to the idiots with the shitty comments, I’m an on call Firefighter in wales and these people don’t have a clue about being oncall firefighter. Keep up the good work 💪🏼
@@WillyBillyBoy24 no
Good work by volunteers, particularly in the middle of the night. Thank you for being there for us, whether or not we realise it.
GOOD WORK BY VOLUNTEERS AND
2:34 is not bad at all for a volunteer fire department. That is actually very impressive by most standards.
Não é ruim mesmo não. Pra ficar ruim tem que melhorar muito esse à postos aí.
Actually thats extremely fast. Okay probably because it was at night and everyone was available when the call came, but still impressive.
Do you know what siren is I dont
@@sandrawilson6469 Carter's type
@@sandrawilson6469 Take a look at this: ua-cam.com/video/wpeIElNd6S8/v-deo.html
The first appliance is out the door in under 3 minutes. Thats impressive for a retained/volunteer station. There are some full time stations that can't manage that from some of the videos I have seen. Well done folks.
Yeah, I always wonder that with these videos you see of wholetimers. It's taking them over 5mins and you have to account for the video operator getting their phone out etc. I'm retained and our fastest time is 3mins 54secs 🤔
In my experience volunteer departments have a lot more motivation, they don’t get as many calls as a career department so for them it’s haul ass to the station and get a truck out ASAP when they get an actual call. For career departments it’s like “oh, just another medical assist” But when there is a working structure fire they will have wheels out the door 30 seconds lol. Different mentalities.
Yes. But look again. Alot of the footage was sped up. Especially at the beginning
@@Ukraine2011 My timing was taken from ones the Sirens started and lights came on, nothing was sped up form then. A great turnout time that would put a lot of whole time stations to shame.
Wasn't expecting a bloody air raid siren that's awsom .
Lots of rural areas in New Zealand or towns with mostly volunteer fire brigades use those sirens. pretty cool and you can hear them a damn long way away
theres a station close to me that still use theres. here in the us.
Those sirens are cool but when your next to one and it goes off you can't hear anything for a little while far out
My fire brigade in germany has a E-57 siren if you know what this is. But we have pagers too.
Welcome to New Zealand!
Ahhh the good old days of when the Vol FD gets called, the whole town knows about it. Especially the folks right next door!!!
In CZ, we stil have siren system - not only for warning people, but for volunteer firefighters - they use different signals for these two purposes. It's a good backup system for main system of notification - normal cellphones (text messages).
first thing our firefighters hear is the Tornado Siren then the pager
Some rural Fire Brigades in Australia still use the sirens as well😊
You always have that one guy who lives literally next to fire st. And always 1st lol
Honestly you see the van pull up and him jump out and run my favourite part of the video
One of our firefighters has an Butcher's shop near the station. Sorry for my bad english 😅
Hes sitting outside the fire station loser lol
Literly me
Lol I was that guy before
That damn load siren that alerted the town scared the hell out of me. I was "oh sit tornado siren run for cover
hehe yeah, but in New Zealand we don't have tornado sirens and it's funny how no one really notices the sirens at night.
It's been a few years for me, but my department's policy was first person in was to engineer the truck, second person was to officer the truck unless a lt. or captain came in quickly. Ranking officers were not to drive, normally. We tried to have all personnel trained to operate although if it was a working fire the truck was usually turned over to an experienced engineer. Ohio state law exempts firefighters and rescue personnel from needing CDL (commercial truck) licenses. I usually made the front seat of the truck except for he night it was 28 below zero F and I was on the tailboard! In many areas, we still have the Civil Defense/fire sirens combined.
Yes, but in places like the UK, Australia and New Zealand you have to be trained in emergency response driving because we don’t like just giving people the keys. We care about the public on the roads, and our crews. Response driving is a skill that needs to be learned correctly.
@@CymruEmergencyResponder The comment says nothing about not being trained for emergency vehicle operation, just that in that state (as with some others) you don't need a CDL (commercial drivers license) to drive a fire department vehicle. It can be very expensive to receive and maintain a CDL and is not practical for small call / volunteer departments. The department I was on for 17 years required extensive classroom and road training before anyone was cleared to drive. Also you were required to be fully trained to operate any pump or other equipment on the vehicle before driving it. Please try to understand the comment before posting a nasty response, we're all on the same team.
Ken Meinken wat part of ohio u in
Our area, the first driver, drives, which is almost always the Lt. The next officer in is the vehicle officer, unless either a chief shows up, or no other officer shows up, then the most qualified black hat moves up. We are also exempt from CDL requirements on emergency response (so technically getting fuel or service requires a driver with a CDL, of which I am the only one). In reality, if we go through the emergency response training (in all reality just the yard portion of a motor vehicle license test) and the Chief allows, we become apparatus operators. However to drive on response calls, we need pump operations, and in the case of our Quint, aerial operations.
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my fastest time is 14 seconds I'm only across the road from my station
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Damn that's dope, i'm looking forward to become a firefighter too
Mine is 10 min
@Westmoreland County PA Fire Buff LOL I think he's joking. If his time is 10 minutes they'd already left the station.
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Awesome job. My cousin was Volunteer F.Fighter for the Kawakawa Fire Station. I'm very proud of him. They're incredible people who drop what they're doing to help save lives & fight fires. Some of the emergencies they attend aren't the nicest. I've lived in small towns & impressed with the responses to the fire siren going off
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Unless you have served in voluntary work in your community, it is impossible explain to anyone the satisfaction and fulfilment of helping your own community brings to you till you go out and do it yourself. Whether it's working in an office, picking fruit on a local farm or fighting fires - all voluntary, yet being able to meet new people in the process. I myself am a volunteer grounds man I do the work I do because the club where I work needs someone to do the job and I am happy to do it for them - voluntarily. Great video Great bunch of guys
This puts a big smile on my face. Such speed and efficiency. Bless you all NZ Fire Service 🙂
People Not realizing that the 2nd Truck got attached Later on via Radio and Not Pager... Carterton 622 got attached for a Air-Ambulance landing. So it's Not extreme urgent. And given the fact that 622 was able to Go shortly after the 2nd Turnout, it seems perfectly fine. Some people should Just Not comment. Really.
I can imagine wherever these guys are, absolutely dropping everything and legging it to the station. Hats off to the heroes
in the US, we sometimes use air raid sirens for fire departments, it depends on the jurisdiction though
Please send the link below and let them go
We use lighter horns in my dept (1 for each substation) but we also have the holy-shit-is-going-down air raid horn for special events. Some neighboring depts use that kind of horn full time.
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That first guy was driving past at just the right time. I wonder if he was about to go shopping at New World across the road?
done that a couple of times. heading down to the shop or to get takeaways for dinner and oh shit there goes the siren - at the station extra fast
@@amazing-vq6jr "Good to be on the way to home after a good day of work... Eh, here goes the pager. I'll just park here at the station."
He probably lit it
@@fritzstudios8571 that would be pretty difficult considering it was a MVA: motor vehicle accident
First person there in 21 seconds lol
Travisb 459 that’s cause they all live like next door
James Loughnan Nah, was probably monitoring PD, heard the call come over PD and hauled to the station
Mine was 2 secs I happen to walk past my SES HQ when CFA siren sounded then my SES pager. (Road Crash Rescue)
I know, he was in the car in front of the station and just hears the alarm, "Hey bro stop the car" *Activates Husain Bolt mode*
dude just straight up booked it through moving traffic. what a guy
Awesome response time for the first engine! I usually get to open the doors of our station while the third wail of the siren is still going. And I live across the street. Interesting thing is, you have the same siren signal as we have in Germany. Keep up the great service and always return safely from your calls!
Lol our bells nearly give me a heart attack in the middle of the night ...... This sounds like a nuclear strike is incoming lol
That's a great response time, especially by a volunteer company. The standard in our community is 5 minutes from being toned by dispatch. We use a combination air-raid siren and phone/computer app in our case.
6:40 needing a driver. Yeah, that was always the toughest part when I would voluntarily sit out the 1st truck so I knew we could get the second engine or tanker rolling as a driver.
Nice response time you got there. Good job mates. Here in Finland as we actually owned the vfd-station as a private association, we spent a lot of our free time in station. Someone was repairing his car in one of the garages, some people were in sauna, some just eating takeaway food and watching movies. In many cases we responded immediately because station was a social place for us to hang out. First attackers pretty much responded immediately, while the next guys coming in took the tanker if extra water was needed. For bigger fire the 8-seater transporter was collecting extra men from station and switching men in shifts. Good times and awesome people. Asthma stopped my career there because doctor did not let me do "smoke diving" as we call it. Meaning going into burning house with airtanks.
Would love to have that many members show up in my department. Nobody wants to join anymore. We’re a dying breed
Mike Young we are a rural vol. department with about 34 members now, about 22-25 show up to every call and 15-20 are airpack ready. I wouldn’t say we’re a dying breed, we just need to advertise to the youth better
Our Volunteer Dept. is dying too
My dept which is in rural northeastern pa has maybe 10 active members which is super low but we get the job done 99% of the time we are out the door within 5 minutes of dispatch at most
Jakob Rodoski what do you get for mutual aid/auto aid? We’re usually the big group that shows up to calls, but we can always count on a full staffed, airpack ready ladder from the town just south of us on every call, and 1-2 full staffed airpack ready engines from the town just east of us, plus tenders (tankers) from surrounding townships if we need to pull from lakes and other static sources and shuttle water to scene, I’m interested to know your side of things
@@thegaminglegends213 we have good mutual aid depts the funny thing is we are almost always running ambulance calls for one of the other depts which they have multiple medical people but a bunch of issues getting people to want to show up
Great perspective on the video, looked good. Awesome looking tanker too.
The air raid siren is call the Fire Whistle in the fire brigade it is used to alert volunteer firefighters in the area to get to the station
Idk how i didnt know that
Thomas Shields In the US we call it a siren
In my part of nz the name we used was THE FAN
I was a vol. for many years. Done first-response medical, drove, jaws, etc. I'm a full time medic now. I never regreted being a vol.. If it wasn't for volunteering, I wouldn't be what I am today.
Absolutely love this video, how many guys and gals have their license now for the engine?, used to be a volly at West Melton back in early 90's , loved it, can't any more as a tetraplegic, but still get a buzz watching these video's and knowing how they drop everything whenever and wherever to help people, thank goodness for local brigades
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Thank you for your service and Much respect!!
Many volunteer departments in Germany still have alarm sirens especially in rural areas. Search for E57 Sirene.
And the old reliable test every Saturday twelve o' clock
stupid question! i see 3 bays.. and only the 2nd and 3rd opened automatically. Does that have to do with the type of signal sent for Equipment needed? or is it just open up those two all the time?
Yes type of signal sent in call...ie this is Motor Vehicle accident....so water tanker not needed.
One of us (voluntary fd) lived in the middle of historic old woodtown we have, that tend to have fire breaking loose pretty often. My buddy actually held his gear back home so he was first to respond in the woodtown... by foot. He had already evacuated people and assessed the situation before we came in to the scene with vehicles. On the way we already knew where to park the trucks and where to pull hoses. It was like, at the blink of an eye everybody was all over the place doing exactly right things because of intel we already had on the way.
My uncle is a volunteer firefighter here where I live we just have a small Department we also rely on the County Fire Department as well
Our volunteer department requires all firefighter to get their DZ-in Canada within 1 year of joining. 1st firefighters to the hall get in & respond; once all trucks have cleared the hall, everyone else drive their own vehicles to the scene. We have very quick responses. & we are on a minitor VI pager & whosresponding.com app.
It's always interesting to hear how operations and policies vary. We were never allowed to drive own vehicles to the scene.
@@timothyj.barron9525 The short time I officered a volly department some jackwagon councilor tried to pass legislation that had a requirement that first responding truck be out of the doors within 4 minutes then 7 minutes for secondary etc then everyone else drives their POV. fascinating enough, when the subject of insurance for all POV's came up it never reached the floor.
But are you trained in emergency driving to the same standards? In many places you can’t just let people drive.
Love your work from Australia 🇦🇺
Those sirens r so rare
I love hearing the siren go off ya know the girls and lads are gearing up, as my mum and hubby have volunteered for 11yrs to the fire service and now retired life members all volunteers in any of Nz services I salute u for your service to our communities
Thanks for posting the video. Great job - keep up the good work and stay safe.
Now that carter air raid siren is epic! Well done.
Thanks for this... Very impressive response time and love the siren!!
Thank u for being there thank u so much
FIRST PERESON THERE IN 21 SECONDS IOI
I live in a small town with a volunteer fire brigade and the siren always scared me so much in the middle of the night
For them to be a volunteer department they have nice equipment. They are great✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾
Nice looking trucks, very clean bay as well. Good work by all.
Impressive turn out speed god bless you all from a UK cousin.
I'm usually the first to the station. Doors and engines first. Then lights and my own gear. We do well for a town of less than 250. Not often under strength
why not doors, gear then engine?
@@EnjoyFirefighting We are a little two truck brigade that's pretty isolated. A small worm up time for the trucks makes them run that much better. Better running truck means we are out the door that much faster. Out the door is more Important than me being geared up. Although I've had to gear up in transit befor. Not in the rules but what you have to do to get it it done
@@hairy-dairyman does that one or two minutes make such a big difference? What kind of apparatus do you have? I don't feel much of a difference at my EMS station, even if we start off with a cold engine and directly get onto the highway
@@EnjoyFirefighting we have a 24 year old pumper tanker (an apliance that has attributes of a tanker and an urban pumper. Ours also has hazmat gear onboard) and a 26 year old tanker (just bushfires but we make it do more). A little heat really helps as they are diesel trucks. They run a little rough on start up.
They just use the station siren, or do they also have pagers or radios with them that they get the call on as well? Very impressive!!
Pagers and a notification on cell phone.
Awesome Looking Rigs, especially That Tanker!
Brodie great vid.you guys rock thanks for volunteering.
Yh. Alarm system is hooked up to the lights usually. Saves time having to find the light switch. Makes it safer as you're usually running to the rig. And on a night shift it helps wake you up quicker if youre sleeping. Not many will sleep through sudden bright lights ans alarms
i miss the old siren at our station we have pagers now , we are also volunteer brigade , im like the poor guy running in at 3.40 to see the truck rolling out with a full crew
Was a volunteer firey for 20 years generally a few minutes after pager was activated first arriving fire fighter to the station would activate station siren if no one else rocked up
First appliances out in ~3 minutes
Second out in about ~9 minutes
Our auxiliary firefighters (like a volunteer, but paid) are 5 - 10 minutes in good areas, impressive response time.
3 minutes?? You're shitting me? A minute is too long. It's litterally going down the fire pole and putting on boots, fire suits and helmet and then jumping into the car...
Looking at the video it seems there were 2 different calls look at time stamp 5:40 where it says it gets attached to call. They are able to crew all but the driver, the driver gets in around 7:00 and the truck is away by about timestamp 8:24. So that's around a 3 min response time as well.
We call our aux firefighters retained in NSW - No air raid sirens used to summon them anymore sadly - although a lot seem to physically remain on the station’s/shed’s.
I used to live in a small town and our fire department responded multiple times a week because it was the only actual fire station in a big area
I love how the doors open ready for the fireman
Units out of the door in 2 mins on both occasions. Impressive
Where was the volunteer siren done from? From Joey 1233am on June the 16th
Normally there’s a siren out the back of the station that when the fire com confirms the fallout and brigade too respond they send a message out and it also goes too the siren
0:54 Tornado Emergency A large and extremely dangerous tornado is on the ground!
How does it work with drivers. I guess they are specifically trained and assigned.
Trained drivers, normally whoever is there and is qualified drives.
Where I am, you have too complete a drivers course that goes for a week. In that you learn defensive driving, operating in wet conditions responding through traffic lights and all other good stuff, also as driver you get taught the pumps for water because they are quite challenging too control the more lines that get connected too the truck.
Did the drive eventually turn up for the second truck or did somebody just jump in and drive.
Only asking because it looked as if they struggled to find first gear
Automatic transmission on some of the trucks need to be at operational temp before moving
That is one long fire siren. Really good response time tho.
Wow what an awesome job. Saving lives is what’s important. And these men give up there time to save other people
This is not the air raid ww2 signal. This is a fire tsunami signal in NZ although the old tsunami sirens are being phased out they will still use this signal on most of the stations but some do sound the air raid signal aswell. We use this same exact tone for chemical and flood alerts.
Not a bad response time out of a station which is not manned.
Garry Aydon i first thought it was just a training Cuz then the alarm just turns on but damn that station is a bad station they should visit my station in sweden we respond as fast as the alarm turns on even if its a training or false alarm
Joel Olsson it is a volunteer station so there is nobody there
Fire Siren in Carterton Volunteer Fire Brigade is for Motor Vehicle Accident and Medical Calls.
The siren Sounds like the war is braking out 😂😂
Yeah especially the echo
First class response guys and in excellent time for a VFB. New Zealand I believe.
Two things really stand out... It cant possibly the US because A} All the guys were Running and B} None of them were Fat
I use to be a member of the mangakino and tokoroa vfb from 2003-2009
Was a good experience
Does MVA Stand for Multi Vehicle Accident?
Dan Fennessey Motor Vehicle Accident
I see. Thanks mate.
Motor Vehicle Accident is what it stands for in the USA not sure over there I assume the same thing.
UK its RTC Road Traffic Collision, used to be RTA - A for Accident, but the cops changed it as it’s usually not an accident, someone has done something wrong
Bonjour, quand l’alerte arrive les portails s’ouvrent tout seuls? Ou une personne l’ouvre?
To get a really great Volunteer Fire Deptment Siren you need to go FarmVille,Virginia because the siren sits on top of the FarmVille Police Station and it is heard all over the whole town? I should know I grew up in FarmVille,Va.
Where in the world is this?
New Zealand.
its in New Zealand I think?
It is
wow that is some scary stuff guys i just got double chills every wear wow
Our Volunteer Fire Dept. has an air raid siren like that too! Love the sound!
Caleb Alt do people get used to it at night?
As a former volunteer,these guys are good
Hey quick question who in charge of the siren????
Sounds like a Carter siren.
Is that a tender/tender in the third bay? Looks like a tractor trailer unit.
Do the crews not have pagers all with the station siren
OMG if i turn the pitch up 3 octaves using my computer's sound settings, that air raid siren sounds like a Federal Signal XT22 going off
Greetings from Austrian Volunteer Firefighter 🇦🇹
Are the lights automatic or what
Merced Videos not exactly, in this certain jurisdiction, the page for the volunteer’s pagers is linked directly to the house siren, doors, and lights, it proves very useful in needing to get out in a hurry, however, it can also be a hindrance when the dispatcher sends a tone test and the whole process happens
These guys must live next door to be able to respond so fast.
What kind if camera and sound system youre installed in the station for filming?
why the slow wail on a siren
The siren is set on attack mode. There are different typed of cycles the siren can be programmed.
Ok. Is it to alert that the trucks are preparing to leave? Or is to get the firefighters that aren’t at the station to get there in a hurry
@@MattCraftVidsthis is a Volunteer Fire Brigade, so yes the station is unmanned when the firemen aren’t required, and the Air raid siren is used to summon all staff to the station in the event of a call. As for the first theory - It wouldn’t be necessary to let the whole town know that a manned fire brigade was about to pull out - that’s why they have quieter door warning alarms combined with the truck sirens.
Hi, for those not familiar with this companies location, which part of the globe is this?
New Zealand.
My question is, what happens if the station doesn't crew? will the doors just stay open?
...................I'm trying to figure out a polite way to address this so I will just say this, those trucks carry 5-6 people, there are two and then the tanker with maybe 3 seats at most. 5 got on the first responding. there were 7-9 firefighters in the station AFTER 5 left on the first truck. likely that was easily an 80% turnout of firefighters for that station. can a station end up understaffed and not able to respond? sure but someone is showing up period. in other departments, those who respond to stations sometimes don't end up going because others responded faster. there is also usually always one person with the job of staying behind.
@@cdoesrcher My question still stands. If no one shows up for whatever reason. Do the doors just stay up?
@@WillyBillyBoy24 They are on a timer
@@WillyBillyBoy24 Yes... You then are the Fire Chief. firefighter and driver. Don't forget to close the doors when you leave
In love with your fire whistle. What model is it?
I think it’s an old Castle Castings or Carter air raid siren. Same type used by the UK and Ireland as Early warning during WWII. NZ make knockoffs of castle castings/carter sirens too, so this could be one of them.
Is this a volunteer station
yeha
Wo ist das, in welchem Land? Notruf 111, kannte ich bisher noch gar nicht
Awesome video! Cool angle to catch the action in the fire station
New Zealand?
Yes
For non maned paid call fire station, that response time was quick 👍
Not sure what the firefighters are called there. Ours are called paid-call volunteer firefighters.
They are called volunteer firefighters. Some stations are mixed volunteer/paid and approx 80% of NZ firefighters are volunteers.
@@RupertAH Exactly like the USA 80% of all US firefighters are volunteers
@@Mustang6971 I thought it would be 69% in the USA? In Germany 96% are volunteers
EnjoyFirefighting - International Emergency Response Videos my mistake I went off of very old statistics 70 percent of all firefighters in the US are volunteers crazy how time changes things and more firefighters are getting paid to do it.
I see nothing wrong with how long it took leaving. Awesome job.
What is the black line on the floor
Water drainage
If you notice there is a guy running at 1:08 he’s just going about his business then that goes off and he is out of that car in a flash and through the door
A few more of those lads with class 2 licences wouldn't go astray at that station ......
In South Africa that is a requirement we still have dedicated drivers but anyone on the day should be able to step up and drive the vehicle
Anton Pienaar need to be trained in emergency driving here.
@@CymruEmergencyResponder here aswell but my point is that it is a requirement for all not just selected drivers both military as well as civilian the difference is for civilian you only require code 10(UK code 2) but military each driver is required to hold advanced driving certificates and individual licenses for each type of emergency vehicle
Very cool guys! I am a volunteer firefighter in Poland too and I am jealous about Your fire dept. building and vehicles! I have a question who is responsible for funding new cars, tools etc.? Is this local government? Do You receive any grant from central/federal authority? Are You using Holmatro hydraulic tools? What's the capacity of water tanker? :D Thank You for answers! :)
The NZ Government funds FENZ (Fire and Emergency New Zealand), most vehicles are funded by FENZ but some brigades or communities will fund a van or ute, in rare cases an appliance. I believe that tanker holds 15,000L
Brodie Nicholls that’s cool!
Let's be honest.
This is really cool and all but...
I feel really bad for the people who just moved into this town and didn't know that on each call at the volunteer station, a tornado siren would go off.
What's a tornado?
I know you commented on this ages ago but the funny thing is that this isn't a town, it's a city called Hamilton in New Zealand which is one of the main cities in the North Island, all towns and cities in New Zealand have these stations posted around the place, so unless you aren't from New Zealand an Air Raid siren normally just means FD alarm, also we don't have tornado sirens anywhere in the country.
when you live near one you actually get used to it so quick that you barely notice it. can imagine most kiwis are completely null to it.
@@lookover1254 Oh! I did not know that this was in New Zealand. Thanks for the reply :)
I met the Fire Station on Woodsetton School Trip in to the latest Year.