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

  1.  @IshaqIbrahim3  what are you thinking of? Although possible, it's currently not a realistic danger we are confronted with usually. Fire fire attacks are interior attacks. Shall they not fight any fires any more because theoretically there might be a bomb inside? Shall paramedics not walk into buildings any more? Looking at some scenarios like Oslo in the government district or Boston at the marathon, these things happened outside on the open street at not inside a building. Sth like that can happen anywhere. There's no flaw in the current tactics, not at all
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  2. they focused onto Volvo trucks made for the American market, that's it ...
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  3. why?
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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. @MindRiot666 actually they do; Although they are not very common in the USA and Canada, some Unimogs are around and the "new" Freightliner Econic is nothing else than a rebadged Mercedes Econic
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  7.  @colingoldthorpe5918  you are aware than in some places in Europe they run road trains, both some kind of medium size ones but also the large ones like in Australia?
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  8. Mercedes-Benz has THE largest lineup which no other brand can compete with. Anything from cars to vans, trucks and buses. And not only the standard version ones but also ones made for offroad, heavy haulage, or designed super compact and maneuverable
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  9.  @tazkrebbeks3391  tbh I'd rather ride the Benz than a Ford truck, and I'm not really a Mercedes fan. American trucks are cool concerning available space inside, but while the old one had an awesome appearance, the new ones just look odd tbh and from the technical aspect they're unfortunately far behind
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  10. even if you look at those, many parts are made abroad. My boss on this side of the pond tried to get a Freightliner grill frame badge directly from Freightliner. Guess where they're made. It's not the US. Same thing with so many components. This Volvo is made in the US and specificly for the American market, you'll barely find any of these driving in the streets of Europe. Btw Mack Trucks Inc. is by now part of the Volvo Group
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  11. they have plans on how to reach every section of the layout. There are parts where they have kind of hidden doors in the mountains, sections which can be lifted from the layout and stick your head through, and also pre-planned spots where they can place a foot
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  12. so the driver can see through and have a better view and the near surrounding area of his crash tender when maneuvering in tight spots, reversing etc
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  13. lol so you think that every vehicle from e.g. the US Army would be right on spot in a combat situation? I doubt that ... the US Army even outsources the transport of some of their equipment, has European made fire and rescue apparatus in service etc
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  14.  @mbmann3892  actually Freightliner sells some ge-badged Mercedes in the USA as well, let it be the compact Sprinter or the larger Econic, I guess Unimogs are still sold from Mercedes-Benz directly.
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  15. well with that issue you're one of few countries, against a much greater number which uses metric
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  16.  @anoniem9518  but that's where they gain quite much experience on how other brands do their stuff; Often they don't even buy it but just take a rental car ...
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  17. the damand and circumstances are quite a bit different on this side of the pond. Here, freight trains are by far not as long and heavy, thatfor one of these locomotives usually is sufficient. Trains here tend to be shorter, faster and more frequent. Freight trains can easily keep up with many passenger trains and often several trains follow with only minutes apart from each other. They use the same tracks like passenger express trains
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  18. wieso tust du es dann?
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  19. Designed in the US, built in the US, made for the American market ... you barely find any of them driving in the streets of Europe. It's like pretending that the Ford F Max would be American just because Ford is American
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  20. so what?
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  21.  @Erzengel1524  Rosenbauer is from Austria
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  22.  @bluelivesmatter8502  I guess in that city being underground would be more of a danger than being several floors above ground; Tidal storm floods even affect this city although it's far from the coastline; As for riots ... the city is well known for its riots on political and sports events but they were never affected there so far; I guess if they really wanted to, they'd manage to open any door no matter if it's above or under ground
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  23. it's large, but nearly as detailed ...
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  24. the size of aircrafts landing at an airport dictates the minimum range of equipment / extinguishing capacity the airport FD needs to be able to fullfill, otherwise the airport would be shut down
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  25.  @ChaJ67  please keep in mind that both are entirely different working environments: American freight trains (damn impressive I may say!) are very long, very heavy and very slow. Well, often they have the track for themselves, whereas European freight trains are shorter, lighter and faster because they share the track with a dozen passenger trains ranging from commuter and regional trains to international high speed trains ... all on the same tracks. Most of our freight locomotives don't have to be heavy duty ... and in places where they need to be, they definetly are using some specialized heavy duty locos. The US is one country. Europe consists out of multiple countries which developed different standards over time, let it be gauge, signaling system, how electric trains are powered or coupling systems; No, while double decker passenger trains are common, double stacked containers aren't a thing anywhere in Europe. Be sure, there are some aspects about the American rail systems which amaze us as well: like e.g. the lack of electrified tracks in many parts of the country. Just take a look at the iron ore line in northern Sweden and Norway: the company operating the line electrified it more than a century ago for the one and only reason to be able to make trains longer, heavier and thus more profitable. Another aspect are the conditions of some side tracks which are worse than some century old cobblestone street, where you see the locomotives and cars leaning to either side and very very low speeds being necessary to "safely" pass that section of the track. Next thing is that you guys still build level crossings / railroad crossings on new tracks (sth which can't be done e.g. in Germany) and that many older crossings seem to be a real issue to semi trucks to pass as they get stuck there Or train stations where you have to wait before you can enter the platform, and platforms which aren't level with the train doors
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  26.  @ChaJ67  Also countries in Europe consist out of different states, counties etc, and also there operations might vary quite a bit depending on the circumstances. While the US has lots of different weather phenonema and regions like deserts, mountains, areas affected by blizzards, tornados, earthquakes etc ... Europe has all of them as well, just in a smaller scale, more compact, closer together. Within a 10 hrs drive or train ride you've crossed Germany and by that went all the way from the mountains, across some other mountain ranges, passing the heat spots and crossing through the tornado alley, all the way to the flatlands and the sea 1. now as you mention it I remember the news reports on the train robberies... talking about level crossings I had the recent traffic accidents on the Brightline tracks in Florida in mind, those were the most recent ones I've seen footage of, apart from the random "truck stuck on crossing and hit by train" videos where I can't tell where they've been recorded at 2. the thing which actually surprised be: some of those active side tracks in the US are in worse shape than some side tracks which are abandoned for a few decades already in Germany. A track like some of those I saw would never be legal to be used by trains around here. Definetly not pretending that Germany would do everything better, hell no. Just had a derailment of a passenger train I think this year - was due to material failure in the concrete ties; Also we removed many old unused tracks and switches which would have been handy at the current stage where operations should be extended. 3. same issue in rural northern Sweden and Norway. The iron ore line passes through a mountain range which is basically uninhabited. Largest place along the line has 55 inhabitants. The counties there have a population density similar to some of US states with lowest population density; Still the entire line was electrified more than a century ago because it payes out with every single iron ore train going up and down that track. The trains go through the outback with not much you'd be able to call infrastructure being around. 4. an that's a big issue; Sure we have a few primarily freight lines owned by a company as well, with the freight trains having priority, but the majority of lines are designed for mixed use and although it can be challenging, you can wrap the freight trains around the schedule of passenger trains that they're barely in the way of each other
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  27. you mean a rotator? There are only few of them here, most recovery companies run both the recovery trucks seen in the video as well as actual mobile cranes with higher reach and higher capacity than the smaller truck mounted cranes "rotators"
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  28. to this very day staff, patients and visitors in hospitals have to wear a FFP2 mask
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  29.  @stevenbodum3405  well that doesn't mean it's a Mercedes-Benz. Skoda is part of the Volkswagen group and their cars use many VW parts, but although VW is sold in the USA ... Skoda definetly isn't. There are no Mercedes-Benz Actros, Zetros etc sold in the USA
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  30.  @TheKartoffel101  most of them are plain normal large ones; But they also have tiny vacuum cleaners on freight cars running around on the tracks
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  31. die Realität ... hmm sofern in den frphen morgenstunden am Sonntag aufgenommen, so ist das durchaus real. Hab selbst genau solche Aufnahmen machen können
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  32.  @gumbogalloschke254  meine Güte, dass es nicht leer ist, ist keine Überraschung. Aber ja, man könnte auch den Alltag filmen, am besten à la Slow TV aus Norwegen, kommt nur eben bei den meisten Gruppen kaum an ... deswegen eben das, was mal heraussticht
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  33.  @qwill8254  different purpose, needs and circumstances! Most trains in Europe don't get as long and heavy as they are in India. If we need powerful locomotives somewhere, be sure, we get and use them
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  34. because they're actually not directly under the load but slightly offside next to it?
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  35.  @fourtoes412  not really, but if that's what you want to see I leave you with that; Want to complain, write the port authority ...
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  36. you must be Swedish, obviously :D
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  37. lol offtopic
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  38. light?! Isn't that obvious?
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  39. guess where China has its Transrapid from ...
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  40. there are also dedicated, seperated and protected high speed tracks in Germany as well, but HSR also runs on shared tracks
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  41. lol it's a documentary made in Germany ...
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  42. still better than all trains running on diesel lol What are the workers supposed to do? Ignore company rules and laws? Probably not if they want to keep their job
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  43. it depends on which size the department chooses to have: the apparatus is available as 4x4, 6x6 and 8x8 and each one has a different tank capacity; 4 minutes are more than sufficient to get an aircraft fire under control
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  44. Mercedes only seels cars and vans in the US, while Mercedes offers THE widest range of vehicles among all brands I know. Not even Ford offers that range of vehicles.
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  45. they're big in the business and as far as I know Mercedes is the brand offering THE widest range of vehicles, with no other brand coming anywhere close ... not even Ford; We run Mercedes Sprinters at the company and I like them apart from some minor details
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  46. well that's how things work today. Yuong men of that age drive trains, semi trucks, are police officers, firefighters ... obviously will also drive emergency vehicles. What do you want to do when a train arrives at your station? walk up to the locomotive and check every time the age of whoever is driving the train? Does the age actually tell you anything about their job experience? A 24 year old working in the job for several years will definetly have more experience then a 34 year old which has been working sth entirely different and passed the training to drive trains only half a year ago ..
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  47. besides the normal ticket price there are also many sorts of discounts; There are general discount cards which give a 25%, 50% or 100% discount, then there are discounts for early purchase, special summer discounts etc
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  48. maglev train routes were supposed to be built in Germany however both due to the crash on the test track and due to enormous expected costs none of them were built anywhere in the country.
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  49.  @HI-vv2nm  how are up to 700 hp underpowered?
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  50. what would be more efficient?
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