Comments by "EnjoyFirefighting - International Emergency Response Videos" (@EnjoyFirefighting) on "WELT Documentary" channel.

  1. it's at sea right now, heading towards Miami
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  2. that doesn't depend on the state but on the specific municipality. Fire departments are primarily a municipal task!
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  3. they definetly not all have up to date equipment :D
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  4.  @markm.3297  sure, American is the one and only, with nothing else being good :D :D :D
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  5. what's the issue with some fire trucks being Mercedes-Benz? It's not luxury, it's a plain normal commercial vehicle, like other Mercedes-Benz vans, small to full size semi trucks, city buses and coach buses.
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  6. as long as the potentially falling tree poses an immediate hazard to public road and pedestrian traffic it's up to the FD to remove that hazard, at least in Germany
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  7. all powered by overhead wires
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  8. they don't throw down a carpet of foam onto the runway but might only use it when stationary and from a distance, not driving into the foam any longer
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  9.  @scottdore8391  not really a problem here, it's in fact a standard tactic on scene ...
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  10. They don't have 'only' one crane, but three (!) cranes in the fleet. Two of them are in service and one is kept as reserve
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  11. uhm actually the Mack Lehigh Valley Operations is only a million square foot large (according to Mack) ... the Mercedes-Benz truck production facility is more than 6 times larger (when looking only at the area of the buildings, not the entire production facility); There's a HUGE difference in size ....
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  12. CPR, resuscitation
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  13. 44% of Germanys electricity comes from green sources, 56% from conventional sources with coal making a 36% share. Btw with countries like the US barely run any electrified trains and rely on several diesel locomotives burning fuel on 100% of their trips, I honestly doubt that it's any greener than most trains being electric and more than 40% being green energy. Take Norway as contrast: yes, their longest main line is still diesel powered, but most trains in the country are electric. And Norway gets 100% of its electricity from green sources; Also it generates more profit for freight companies: a rail company far up in the north electrified its track more than a century ago as the locomotives were more powerful and thus were able to pull heavier and longer trains, generating more profit with every single train
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  14. I think it doesn't come down to design in that job ... looking great doesn't help anyone, however I understand the demand to have a rather nice than ugly looking truck for the same job; The entire apparatus layout in Germany is different, starting with only commercial truck chassis being used
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  15. I guess that's quite an understatement: apart from a few Unimogs, are there any Mercedes-Benz trucks around in the USA?
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  16. 1300 calls including the FD operated EMS units. In some cities, including Berlin, the FD runs most of the EMS units like ALS Emergency Ambulances and Emergency Doctor Cars; That's how they get these high number of calls per day
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  17. it's impressive to see those empty streets in the video, unfortunately in reality many city streets and especially pedestrian zones are still quite packed in many places. It's awesome on the weeksend, but from Monday to Friday there's quite much life going on ...
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  18. in Germany the FD is a communal task which get their financial support only from the municipality and the state as highest position
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  19.  @kevinsunderman4432  of course it's large, but when you compare it to other brands building large trucks, this one from mercedes-Benz is still a multiple larger than the others. Apart from that: interesting how you go from commercial trucks to war history
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  20.  @kiwiforever3604  Volvo should start building van chassis ... so far Mercedes-Benz covers THE widest range of vehicles
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  21.  @TranceEmotion  well US and Europe are entirely different working environments with different demands. In the US freight trains are super long, heavy and slow, and they barely have passenger trains to share the track with. Over here freight trains are rather short, by far not as heavy, and fast. They keep up with the passenger trains they share the track with, often being just minutes apart from each other. There are way more trains per hour per direction on most of our tracks here To put this into perspective: take a stretch of a railroad line with one track in each direction. That track is used by freight trains, commuter trains, regional trains, regional express trains (also international ones), inter city and inter city express high speed trains (again also international ones) ... all at the same time. Having that in mind the freight trains should be able to somewhat keep up and not be too much of an obstruction by creeping a track along at low speed
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  22.  @alexku8452  there are some briliant documentaries from Germany out there which show actual action; There are some series on various fire departments and EMS providers which really show action on scene of medical calls, fire and rescue scenarios. They also show people involved, like home owners or patients as they agreed on it; If they don't they would get blurred, no issue with that. Of course not every day will come with enormous fires and extreme accidents, but as they follow THE largest FD in the country I expected a bit more than that tbh. Also from specificly this FD there are some much better documentaries on TV and youtube. Stations running more than a 1000 calls a month will definetly have at least a smaller fire sooner or later, but as some documenataries from other departments with much less calls showed there are also plain normal apartment fires to fully involved structure fires, you just have to follow the FD not just for one shift but for a period of time
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  23. Mike you're correct, there was way too much showing training and exercise situations and too little on actual emergency calls; Especially as they followed the largest FD in the country, with some stations running more than a 1000 calls each month, this is not a good outcome for a documentary
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  24.  West Coast  funny that we don't have issues with ours, at least not such issues; Where I work we depend on van-based units and we beat quite the shit out of them, driving them at their limits ... we use the Sprinter for many generations so far and didn't have engine problems. Also many trucking companies rely on the Mercedes-Benz trucks here, no matter if they operate in the flatlands or the mountains, in the far north or south
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  25. natural disasters can offur pretty much anywhere ... however the city and state is far inland and survived many centuries so far, good chance that it's safe from tsunamis etc; Earthquakes don't happen there, volcanos don't exist there; Fires can occur in a building in remote areas as well
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  26.  @idunnoconfusion2660  and EOD teams go into a burning building? I doubt that. If they know about the bombs theyy won't enter the building, maybe only perform an exterior attack with some robots and will let it burn down in a controlled matter ...
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  27. it is THE most popular scale for model trains out there; Larger ones would have made it difficult to show so much, smaller ones would made have difficult to show so many details
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  28. 44% of the electricity in Germany comes from green sources
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  29. that includes all the FD operated EMS units like ALS Emergency Ambulances and Emergency Doctor Cars. In some cities the FD provides the largest share of EMS vehicles and that's how they easily get these high numbers of calls
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  30. you can't charge batteries when it's cold? Then tell us how all the magicians in Norway are able to charge all their electric vehicles during winter then?!
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  31. George Tinc at least we don't call pickups a "truck" :D Bucees holds the record for the longest car wash, that doesn't mean to be the largest one. And tbh looking at their facility it is long, but far from impressive in size when you leave the gas station and parking lot away lol
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  32. why?
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  33. we had a week of freezing temperatures ... now it's rather decent warm, no snow left at all, and I turned up the heating in my apartment only 5 times this winter so far because it's warm
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  34.  @IshaqIbrahim3  obviously you
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  35.  @johnisawesome18  well, Teslas and other electric cars are used in the fire and emergency services today already, not sure how it will look like if Tesla starts building trucks in the future Some fire apparatus manufacturers built all electric and hybrid electric fire trucks (actual fire trucks, not just cars) already, one of them was tested in Berlin already
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  36. although actual crash landings are rare, safety / emergency landings occur like once a week; each airport is required by international guidelines to provide certain amount of extinguishing power for a certain size of plane being allowed to go to the airport. Also not every airport is right within the city, so the airport FD will also have to cover all other fire and rescue tasks within the airport, anything from automatic fire alarms going off in the buildings to traffic accidents on the roads (within the security area and on public roads). The volunteer fire departments around the airport will barely be dispatched to that kind of calls at the airport. Basically you get the entire range of emergency incidents at airports like you get in the city. Fire alarms, traffic accidents, medical calls, technical assistance and rescue calls, train accidents, hazmat incidents, ...
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  37. HO / 1:87
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  38.  Johnny’s Bricks  the density of fire stations across Germany actually is extremly high, basically every single village has its own fire station; no matter if a location is in an urban or rural area, as long as it's located on a street crews have to be able to get there in 10 minutes max
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  39.  @chloehennessey6813  well in fact the truck chassis and apparatus manufacturer are two different brands, but among ordinary fire trucks the truck itself will be from one brand: a Mercedes-Benz based fire truck will have a Mercedes-Benz engine, drivetrain, suspension, steering wheel, cab, ...
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  40. vacuum cleaner ...
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  41. as only the length of the trailer is limited in the USA, you of course can go for a longer tractor unit; As the length of the entire truck is limited here, you of course would rather get a short tractor unit to increase the loading space in the trailer; They don't have bathrooms, but they have beds, TV, microwaves and fridges as well and they bring you across the large highways just as well as they bring you through the mountains, southern heat or freezing north
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  42. because the uploader is a TV station which made the documentary and bought all the required licenses to use these songs
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  43. even some EMS providers have a halligan on their ambulance
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  44. the best 4x4 vehicles? Sorry, I'd rather take a German G-Class or Unimog, or a Czech Tatra instead and when it get's "too rough" a Swedish Bandvagn 206 Häggluns will find its way for sure And as for recoveries ... for the big jobs we don't just get recovery trucks on scene, we also get mobile cranes there. Even fire and rescue services operate them for rescue and recovery operations
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  45. as long as neither Scania nor Volvo produce some compact chassis for commercial use, like a van, it's not relevant for us ^^
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  46. in Hamburg City, Germany
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  47. pretty much any trucking business?
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  48. I have to work on smaller units, usually vans, and in that size range I definetly prefer Mercedes-Benz over other brands like Ford, Volkswagen, Iveco or Fiat. They aren't perfect, but concerning that we beat the shit out of them I'm not surprised, any van based unit would require maintenance then, and so far the Mercedes never broke down 3 times on one run (like e.g. Iveco did)
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  49. other brands make it much easier to copy stuff: they simply buy stuff from another brand, disassemble it and take a very close look.
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  50. It makes sense to build a frame suitable for many different tasks and specifications needed; The might be used for pretty much anything, from simple box trucks to fire trucks, truck cranes to dump trucks, and each customer has different specifications e.g. concerning ground clearance, wheel / drive / steering configuration etc
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