11:18 Love the way this long convoy was just as noisy as it needed to be to pass this busy junction, then all the sound and lights was gone once they're through. Real dynamic use of equipment so as not to draw attention.
possibly perhaps but they seem a bit obvious - interesting note though the driver clearly blocks his face then looks away as he approaches the camera lol
The blues are perfectly adequate, if you can’t see that there’s a bloody big fire appliance pounding down the road, then you shouldn’t be on the road yourself. The way some US emergency vehicles are lit up could, in some circumstances, be counter productive and even dangerous.
Night Fury well all marked British police cars have a ton of hi vis stickers anyway, and the lights/sirens are very visible and loud compared to the ambient traffic
same, including one video of a bunch of volunteer ambulances operated by Teaneck, New Jersey, going way overboard on the lighting to avoid being sued because some stupid person could see them, but decided to act dumb and act like they couldn't see them coming
22:12 rare to see additional plates mounted around the registration plate, in this case it's 'FIRE' denoting a vehicle responding to a fire emergency. All police forces operate Fixed Speed Cameras and this plate may well be prominently placed to advise the Police staff processing captures by cameras that the vehicle is an emergency service vehicle, (and thus exempted from most Road Traffic laws such as speed limits)
The Heathrow Air Ambulance is private and does not deal with 999 calls, so I’m not sure why it is running on lights. There are so many private companies running around London on lights and sirens but not actually going to emergency calls, or carrying patients with life threatening issues. Hopefully they won’t kill a pedestrian when they do this because the driver will be responsible.
*THEY DRIVE LIKE IT'S ACTUALLY AN EMERGENCY!!* In my city the police have crazy high performance Dodge Chargers and they drive rather slow... Meanwhile in England they max out the grip on Vauxhall Astras XD Skip to 11:08 for WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE *Btw I enjoy the simple half-half and on-off light patterns. And not covered in lights like silly North American vehicles. And actually using their turn signals!*
I live in North America, Minnesota, USA, our fire departments, ems, and police do use turn signals. Do you know of anywhere that doesn’t? Also, I love the sirens in Europe. The sound is very piercing.
@@ffandrewd2986 Sadly I've seen a lot of North American videos and vehicles in my own city as well, and if they do use their turn signals, which is rare, they're obscured by all the other lights anyways.
MET_LONDONSANS It is an independent ambulance service whose speciality is repatriations with an office in Iver and the ambulance station on the perimeter of Heathrow Airport. The service serves the whole of the UK and abroad. Heathrow Air Ambulance is predominantly a repatriation service, which offers a bed-to-bed service and non-emergency movements of patients from hospitals to airside or vice versa.
Clout Token under bridge hand off, if someone is watching from above they are gonna be following the bikes normally, so if they split under a bridge, who ever is potentially watching will be looking for 3 bikes and not notice a single car pull off.
High ranking fire officers will buy what ever vehicle they want within reason but they tend to use mondeos and land rovers and more coupes than a tela model s XD
I saw them yesterday evening turn up on blues outside some flats opposite where I live, closely followed by E43 PL. They left after around 15 minutes, after the police arrived.
16:00 it's so weird to see a Ford box ambulance in Europe like that with all blue lights lol, I love the halogens though! Looks cool, as unusual as it is
- Wikipedia - A partnership between Transport for London and BTP led to the formation of the ERU. The unit carries TfL engineers to incidents on the London Underground, such as one unders and terrorist incidents. The vehicles are driven by BTP officers, so once at the scene the officer performs regular policing duties in relation to any crime or public safety issues. The use of the blue lights on the unit's vehicles is subject to the same criteria as with any other police vehicle. In December 2013, TfL announced that the trial of blue lights had ended, but ERU vehicles will retain blue lights, as BTP drivers had halved the unit's response time to incidents. Prior to the start of the trial, vehicles were liveried in TfL 'EMERGENCY' branding, and carried only red and amber lighting for use on the scene of incidents.
TfL emergency response vehicle which is classed as part of the British Transport Police fleet and driven by them for emergency response to London underground etc incidents
TheHague112 the unit was originally formed over 25 years ago. After the bombings of 2005 LUL applied to have its lorries blue lights but was denied, which led to LUL recruiting BTP drivers to allow us faster response to such emergencies
I can't see one of the vehicles in the thumbnail. (the 'fire engine' that's actually marked police) also can somebody explain what all these vehicles are? A guide would be helpful.
That vehicle is a BTP incident response vehicle for TFL which attends major incidents on London Underground such as person under a train. It’s staffed by police medics as well as emergency response unit
The vehicles belong to LONDON Underground emergency response unit (ERU) they are classed as London’s 4th emergency service and deal with people under trains to derailments to major incidents like the 7/7 bombings in London
They have loads and Scubby Impress's . . all to Police speck, up rated brakes and suspension. . . The Golfs have the decals taken off the back, but l think they are the 2.0 and they have been tweeked. . They pulled me just before last Christmas they were in a Mittsy,
Ik this is a joke, but the actual helicopters only function 12 hrs a day, from dawn till dusk. Other times there is a ground unit that will transport the surgeons to the scene.
K G yea I know don’t worry bro I watch all documentaries about the air ambulance and all that but yea just thought it’d be funny. Especially considering it looks American style
The vehicle at 14.32 is actually a LONDON UNDERGROUND ERU (Emergency Response Unit) Vehicle driven by a BTP (British Transport Police) driver. They attend incidents on the London Underground like derailments and suicides
@@Andrew-mv5kt they basically are a fire engine but without the ladders and water tank etc they have heavy rescue gear instead. There is info about the ERU on the TFL ( Transport for London) website.
Not true. I live in America, your thinking of unmarked, not undercover. Unmarked is less conspicuous, but still able to tell because of the black pushbars and spotlights, undercover, is even more less conspicuous, they delete the pushbars and color them differently.
Anybody know why most police vehicles are registered in Birmingham? Is there a huge "supplier" of police cars that distributes throughout the country's police forces?
First video, he's thinking I'm sure Krispy-Kreme was around here somewhere? At 7:33 it pisses me off, why do the SEG escort that Range Rover through a red light and then just drive off, that's bloody illegal
Heston & isleworth fire station it’s so weird I went west Thames college when the fire alarm goes off they don’t respond to it other firestation responds to it so weird 🤷🏾♂️🤔
London has used Merc fire trucks for years. My local brigade put all its MAN trucks into reserve, too many issues with the transmission. We are currently on Volvo's for primary response, a few MAN's and an old Dennis as a spare.
Brexit (still) hasn't happened yet, and when it does, *newsflash* nothing will change. German cars will still be good cars to use for Police fleets, and the UK still won't pay any extra fees to import them because we're one of the biggest importers of your cars in the world! They're good motors and we like them. Brexit is practically irrelevant.
It really bothers me how some people are so dumb and clueless about their surroundings. 'Oh look, a fkin fire truck with as many lights as possible is coming. Let me just squeeze to the other side of the road before it passes...' A few years ago im front of my school a man decided it was a nice idea to cross the road while an ambulance was approaching at 90-100km/h. The ambulance needed to brake HARD and even locking its wheels for a few meters. I never whished so hard to someone get run over...
Directed to London, why do bikes which are obviously working as a career go past with L PLATES On, they need to have passed their test to ride a motorised vehicle
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11:18 Love the way this long convoy was just as noisy as it needed to be to pass this busy junction, then all the sound and lights was gone once they're through. Real dynamic use of equipment so as not to draw attention.
Thank you so much for the footage. These guys don't mess around. People get out of the for the most part. I am impressed. Thank you from Texas.
7:58 MI5 at work?
I knew they looked like spies
possibly perhaps but they seem a bit obvious - interesting note though the driver clearly blocks his face then looks away as he approaches the camera lol
Gordon Ramsay at 13:05 is a rare catch alright 😂
Oh damn it’s him
So few lights. As someone who lives in America, that's always bugged me. I'm used to emergency vehicles lighting up like Christmas trees.
Night Fury ikr
The blues are perfectly adequate, if you can’t see that there’s a bloody big fire appliance pounding down the road, then you shouldn’t be on the road yourself.
The way some US emergency vehicles are lit up could, in some circumstances, be counter productive and even dangerous.
Night Fury well all marked British police cars have a ton of hi vis stickers anyway, and the lights/sirens are very visible and loud compared to the ambient traffic
Well at least our police officers don't shoot and kill people at the drop of a hat.
same, including one video of a bunch of volunteer ambulances operated by Teaneck, New Jersey, going way overboard on the lighting to avoid being sued because some stupid person could see them, but decided to act dumb and act like they couldn't see them coming
9:40 did anyone notice this but the first car was City of London and the other cars and the bike was metropolitian police
They are both from London but metropolitan police patrol the boroughs and City Of London patrol Central London?
Toaster Bath the city of London police patrol the city London known as The square mile
@@jamesevans938 I know but they are not in their patch
Toaster Bath but they often assist each other
@@jamesevans938 true
22:12 rare to see additional plates mounted around the registration plate, in this case it's 'FIRE' denoting a vehicle responding to a fire emergency. All police forces operate Fixed Speed Cameras and this plate may well be prominently placed to advise the Police staff processing captures by cameras that the vehicle is an emergency service vehicle, (and thus exempted from most Road Traffic laws such as speed limits)
Yh mate fire unless it's a cat 1 emergency they ain't aloud to go over the speed limit
The Heathrow Air Ambulance is private and does not deal with 999 calls, so I’m not sure why it is running on lights. There are so many private companies running around London on lights and sirens but not actually going to emergency calls, or carrying patients with life threatening issues. Hopefully they won’t kill a pedestrian when they do this because the driver will be responsible.
I think the HAA crews run emergency transfers that require emergency driving conditions but there does seem to be alot of cowboy ambulances out there
Probably filming the A&E show Nightwatch you always see the lights on in the background and they are driving normal lol
I worked a private ambulance and had critical patients often that requires lights and sirens. Hell, I was one of those patients one time.
No legal requirement for an ambulance to be answering 999 calls to use L&S though. (RRVs are different though, but that doesn't apply here)
17:36 this should be the sound of every emergency vehicle in the world
It's beautiful
And the top light pattern too
Damn that Heathrow airport ambulance looks so good! 😍
Trojan 41 you only get the best when private😜😂
Did u notice station manager's car bmw 5 series not 3 series
i hate it
@CC-4498 nah, big inefficient engines with maintenance being tricky due to them being imports. Sprinters are much better
1:35 HART FRU Y151, Y152 and Y131 Equipment carrier from Canning Town station.
2:18 - the number plate of that bmw is so cool, it’s BX (the number plate code for London) 15 and then LDN (abbreviation for London)
*THEY DRIVE LIKE IT'S ACTUALLY AN EMERGENCY!!*
In my city the police have crazy high performance Dodge Chargers and they drive rather slow... Meanwhile in England they max out the grip on Vauxhall Astras XD
Skip to 11:08 for WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
*Btw I enjoy the simple half-half and on-off light patterns. And not covered in lights like silly North American vehicles. And actually using their turn signals!*
I heard the main reason for the simpler sticker design is so the cars can be easily stipped and sold after their service life has expired
I like them too but the American lights are actually really cool and unique for their kind
You should see my city's cops, they catch air sometimes going down some streets.
I live in North America, Minnesota, USA, our fire departments, ems, and police do use turn signals. Do you know of anywhere that doesn’t? Also, I love the sirens in Europe. The sound is very piercing.
@@ffandrewd2986 Sadly I've seen a lot of North American videos and vehicles in my own city as well, and if they do use their turn signals, which is rare, they're obscured by all the other lights anyways.
I Have a question at 20:44 the white van why did he switched the lights off ?
And also what is that
Probably using them to aid the other van in getting through the traffic but not responding to the same incident.
No name Could be SCO19, I’m not sure. They ride in undercover cars/vans sometimes.
ZiepexGamer it’s counter terrorism units in civilian vans normally with a few lights dotted around
ZiepexGamer They’re Mental Health ambulances
13:05 the guy in the black t shirt; surely it's Gordon Ramsay
Holy shit it is😂😂
It is him holy shit
Lol its actually him
None of you have ever seen Gordon Ramsay then... looks more like James Martin
@@therealgleds438 It was Gordon Ramsay have another look.
I like the santa sleigh at 2:50
16:38 looks like an American Ambulance.
MET_LONDONSANS yeah they (Heathrow Air Ambulance) have a whole fleet of them in all colors of the rainbow and they are all lhd..
@@medicyoshi4178 so does it fly to USA, the Airplanes
MET_LONDONSANS It is an independent ambulance service whose speciality is repatriations with an office in Iver and the ambulance station on the perimeter of Heathrow Airport. The service serves the whole of the UK and abroad. Heathrow Air Ambulance is predominantly a repatriation service, which offers a bed-to-bed service and non-emergency movements of patients from hospitals to airside or vice versa.
Though it was a fake till I saw Heathrow
@@medicyoshi4178, wait but why do they use American Ones ?
At 13:30 those motorbikes are the Met's moped squad.
11:41 refuel trap
Forgive my ignorance but what is that?
look at the mercedes. The fuel hatch is open @@nightfury8440
@@boris71096 Oh, now I see it. Never heard that called a refuel trap though. Here we just call that a forgetful idiot.
Great compilation! I have never seen that COLP VW Passat!
11:18 ah yes, just what I want to wake up to on a Saturday morning
What's up with the SEG letting the subject car go on without them? I see it switched it's blues off so maybe a training exercise?
Possibly! I don't have a clue, to be honest!
Looked like maybe prince phillip or one of the royals
07:55, why did all the bikers suddenly disappear? What was the point of this, anyone know?
BlueLines_ Assuming to cut ahead to the next intersection
Clout Token under bridge hand off, if someone is watching from above they are gonna be following the bikes normally, so if they split under a bridge, who ever is potentially watching will be looking for 3 bikes and not notice a single car pull off.
11:40 fuel cap open in secound van
12:43 5 series not 3 series
A Tesla at 15:18 😯
Probably A chiefs or high ranking members vehicle
Can't find that anywhere on google!
High ranking fire officers will buy what ever vehicle they want within reason but they tend to use mondeos and land rovers and more coupes than a tela model s XD
That Range Rover at 4:12 looks gorgeous.
6:48 birds moved out of the way.
Kade Perry due to that lo pro/SA40😍😍
Nice compilation! Lots of goodies in London ;)
Thanks! :)
Wasn't Dockhead Fire Station used in the exterior shots for London's Burning?
Ethan Carberry-Holt Correct!
TheSpot Also realises they used the appliance bay in LB too
An excellent compilation. Good to see you included H281 turning out from Woodside.
Ofcourse! I really liked their fire station with the narrow bay doors. And it was the only turnout video so far from Woodside!
I saw them yesterday evening turn up on blues outside some flats opposite where I live, closely followed by E43 PL. They left after around 15 minutes, after the police arrived.
What camera do you shoot with?
FB2 Response Videos Canon 600d with a 18-300 lens
14:37 its the malaysia police car siren
Do the large ladders on the roof of the LFB engines extend?
16:00 it's so weird to see a Ford box ambulance in Europe like that with all blue lights lol, I love the halogens though! Looks cool, as unusual as it is
The Sprinter at 0:54: it looks like there is lot of the weight on the rear axle and only very little on the front. Bad for control!
Never heard the fire siren at 4:33!
It's just a hi-lo.
Well I heard it! You should turn up your volume! 😜
It's the old Hi-Lo
I've heard hi-lo before but that particular siren sounds more like a fire alarm than the normal two tone sound.
It's the siren the rescue trucks use, you can also hear it at other parts of the video.
Also what is that police fire truck thing around 14:40? :)
- Wikipedia - A partnership between Transport for London and BTP led to the formation of the ERU. The unit carries TfL engineers to incidents on the London Underground, such as one unders and terrorist incidents. The vehicles are driven by BTP officers, so once at the scene the officer performs regular policing duties in relation to any crime or public safety issues. The use of the blue lights on the unit's vehicles is subject to the same criteria as with any other police vehicle. In December 2013, TfL announced that the trial of blue lights had ended, but ERU vehicles will retain blue lights, as BTP drivers had halved the unit's response time to incidents. Prior to the start of the trial, vehicles were liveried in TfL 'EMERGENCY' branding, and carried only red and amber lighting for use on the scene of incidents.
TfL emergency response vehicle which is classed as part of the British Transport Police fleet and driven by them for emergency response to London underground etc incidents
TheHague112 the unit was originally formed over 25 years ago. After the bombings of 2005 LUL applied to have its lorries blue lights but was denied, which led to LUL recruiting BTP drivers to allow us faster response to such emergencies
Gotta love the SEG !
Do you by any chance know what siren type/model the LFB Pump Ladder F331 Whitechapel uses? I have been trying to find that siren for a long time. :)
Someone rare scenes where the people finally react. Normally they just stay where they are
Police wade shiffer la police department
14:36What is this emergency vehicle to do?
It is a police rescue truck, that is in use for incidents on the railway network of the London tube/metro. It carries rescue gear.
@@TheSpotResponses oh. I thought it was a bomb truck. Those typically have a lot of stuff
6:22 American siren?
Noah Jones yep. Whelen epsilon
I can't see one of the vehicles in the thumbnail. (the 'fire engine' that's actually marked police) also can somebody explain what all these vehicles are?
A guide would be helpful.
If you just check the discription, it helps. It is a vehicle transporting rescue gear. No weapons.
That vehicle is a BTP incident response vehicle for TFL which attends major incidents on London Underground such as person under a train. It’s staffed by police medics as well as emergency response unit
The vehicles belong to LONDON Underground emergency response unit (ERU) they are classed as London’s 4th emergency service and deal with people under trains to derailments to major incidents like the 7/7 bombings in London
Wow a tesla... Great video. Some rare catches 👍
9:45
Yes
22:54 sneaky boys out and about
What are the vans for at 21:22 ????
Adam Duffy City of London Police public order vans! Being used for mass crowd control
Oh Ok, so are they just transporting officers??
@@adamduffy6973 yup riot control
0:28 this surely looks like a ambulance
Purpose built vehicle by ambulance coach builders
Looks like a special unit. Possibly mobile command? Although those might be bigger.
It's for CBRN.
As of when did the police use VW golfs 28:14
There is only one!
I've seen an undercover Peugeot 208 once, very weird
They have loads and Scubby Impress's . . all to Police speck, up rated brakes and suspension. . . The Golfs have the decals taken off the back, but l think they are the 2.0 and they have been tweeked. . They pulled me just before last Christmas they were in a Mittsy,
I love the interceptor
Our firefighters do throw their trucks around a lot
XELA GAMING I’m not complaining I was just saying
Compensating for the stupid drivers out there ?
Very awesome footage !!!
Thank you Yves :) Took me some effort during the 5 months, but it was worth it!
*the first one is my dream car. Damn range rover*
Ford ranger raptor is mine
Really cool compilation! I've subscribed!
At 4:00 what siren does the land rover have?
It has a wail siren.
Sounds like a whelen alternate tone. The tone, is wail, but the actual siren could be a whelen epsilon alternate
I my have missed everything at 2:20 because I was looking more at the Bentley
Rolls royce*
It’s a rolls Royce
Where
16:36 i didn't know we had US style ambulances but then again I've never traveled abroad so i had no need to travel to an airport
Airport ambulance is a left hand drive old ford ambulance nice shot
12.31, what on earth is that police car? nice station btw
Toyota Mirai. Odd looking thing..
It's good looking tho
12:31
Nice compilation!
Well done mate brilliant video
16:30 is no one gonna tell them that’s not how air Ambulances work?
Ik this is a joke, but the actual helicopters only function 12 hrs a day, from dawn till dusk. Other times there is a ground unit that will transport the surgeons to the scene.
K G yea I know don’t worry bro I watch all documentaries about the air ambulance and all that but yea just thought it’d be funny. Especially considering it looks American style
Kieran Piper But these aren’t for HEMS Air ambulances (helos). These are for actual air ambulances - so Jets
The vehicle at 14.32 is actually a LONDON UNDERGROUND ERU (Emergency Response Unit) Vehicle driven by a BTP (British Transport Police) driver. They attend incidents on the London Underground like derailments and suicides
I always wondered why BTP had what looked like fire trucks, thanks :)
@@Andrew-mv5kt they basically are a fire engine but without the ladders and water tank etc they have heavy rescue gear instead. There is info about the ERU on the TFL ( Transport for London) website.
American Unmarked Car: Paint a normal cruiser black
British Unmarked Car: Normal Car + Sirens
Not true. I live in America, your thinking of unmarked, not undercover. Unmarked is less conspicuous, but still able to tell because of the black pushbars and spotlights, undercover, is even more less conspicuous, they delete the pushbars and color them differently.
Anybody know why most police vehicles are registered in Birmingham? Is there a huge "supplier" of police cars that distributes throughout the country's police forces?
First video, he's thinking I'm sure Krispy-Kreme was around here somewhere? At 7:33 it pisses me off, why do the SEG escort that Range Rover through a red light and then just drive off, that's bloody illegal
13:04 Gordon Ramsay 🧐
British police still seem to use indicators anyway
A Tesla with a private plate at 15.02 that must have been really cheap 🤔
It's a privately owned vehicle. Common for ambulance or fire officers
I never knew that sirens in London or on the UK sound like North American sirens.
At 2:19 there were the metropolitan armed police response units
0:05 special rarest offroad land rover
Heston & isleworth fire station it’s so weird I went west Thames college when the fire alarm goes off they don’t respond to it other firestation responds to it so weird 🤷🏾♂️🤔
It is possible they were doing training and therefor an other station responded. Probabay Richmond or Twickenham.
Could do but happened multiple of times
@@darkangleszz it might have something to do with the unit based there?
Maybe they were hoping that ropey college burnt down! 😂
Thats weird, London uses old mercedes fire trucks. Down south we have brand new DAF/MAN Fire engines with Air Sirens on them.
London has used Merc fire trucks for years. My local brigade put all its MAN trucks into reserve, too many issues with the transmission. We are currently on Volvo's for primary response, a few MAN's and an old Dennis as a spare.
is there any at leytonstone?
I've been there, but no catches unfortunality
85% german cars, really Brexit? 😂😂
German engineering is awesome
@@nightfury8440 Mercs and BMWs brake down easily
Brexit (still) hasn't happened yet, and when it does, *newsflash* nothing will change.
German cars will still be good cars to use for Police fleets, and the UK still won't pay any extra fees to import them because we're one of the biggest importers of your cars in the world!
They're good motors and we like them. Brexit is practically irrelevant.
brake down?
Lmao 😆
That station managers car was a 5 series not 3
That jeep In the first clip is a fire vehicle they have those sirens to get to the station well that's what it is like in my country in the UK
I love this
love the couple in the rolls Royce, their expression, eye say there, could you move please, were off to see the Queen, lol, very cool
Dude caught the Queen's Bentley being escorted
Very nice comp!
0:22 police ambulance??!!
Bomb Squad vehicle.
Their Tee shirts say" if you see me running try and keep up"
It really bothers me how some people are so dumb and clueless about their surroundings. 'Oh look, a fkin fire truck with as many lights as possible is coming. Let me just squeeze to the other side of the road before it passes...'
A few years ago im front of my school a man decided it was a nice idea to cross the road while an ambulance was approaching at 90-100km/h. The ambulance needed to brake HARD and even locking its wheels for a few meters. I never whished so hard to someone get run over...
Directed to London, why do bikes which are obviously working as a career go past with L PLATES On, they need to have passed their test to ride a motorised vehicle
Even at 27 years old police cars are still cool 😎
16:06 american ambulances?
Awesome video! Subscribed
8:52 ahh yes Blackwall!!!
so we just ignore the literal sled at 2:54?
rufus davies Yes we do! It's a tri-shaw or pedicab. There's dozens them in London.
Mabye the firestation need wider doors so they wouldn't have to fold in the rear view mirrors >_>
Very nice video
Thank you :)
Cool!
Am I the only one asking myself, why am I watching this?
@@johannesschonborn9273 yes your the only one i think!
The fact that lfb have to unfold there wing mirrors before leaving just proves someone has to make bigger appliance bays
VIP escorts.. what a waste of resources. the rest is very cool :) nice vid
Uuwuu.....Whelen Sound 😍
It's funny how they rarely use the High/Low siren like most of people here in America thinkq
1:35 that is a hart ambulance
It is a HART vehicle. It does not transport patients. It carries specialist equipment, such as breathing apparatus and CBRN gear.
7:11 dont like that fire enine
22:34
sas?
Hassy CTSFO
@@lsks2959 thanks