"EA" on that armored truck at the beginning stands for "excalibur army", it's czech company that also makes lot vehicles for military and curently is working on modernization of circa 90 T72 tanks which will be send to Ukraine. I believe they work in cooperation with Tatra on some vehicles.

1:27 This one is also Škoda. 1:50 Some of the new police vehicles (since 2019) have these bumpers. The police officers who use these vehicles were actually trained to perform the PIT maneuver by American police. 3:30 The light color also used to be only blue. Newer vehicles, manufactured since 2016, have this red and blue light. 4:08 Euro Truck Simulator is also a Czech game 🙂 5:50 Yes, it is a Fiat.

If you're ever in Europe or in Southeast Germany you have to visit Czechia. Such a beautiful country and very friendly people.

Czechia is certainly a country that has made an incredible progress in upgrading its emergency vehicles

Fun fact: Euro Truck Simulator 2 is made by Czech developer studio SCS based in Prague

Děkuji za tvojí tvorbu a reakce na naší malou středoevropskou zemi co ma kolem 10 milionů obyvatel děkuji držím palce a jen tak dál 😁😁😁

The vehicle with the EA logo is a CZS 15 TRITON. EA stands for Excalibur Army, which is the company that makes the vehicle.

that big tyre crane says "sprava zeleznic" which roughly means "rail transport authority" so is probably a specialised vehicle for rail/trains related operations.

I’m from Czech Republic and I’m really happy to see a KZfaqr from America react to such a small country like ours thank you

Thank you for including my country! 🇨🇿 ❤

RED-BLUE light - here in Poland we have it simple: BLUE-only signal is for all Police/Emergency/Fire/Military (single) vehicles, and BLUE-RED lights are for vehicles in column/convoy (for the first and last vehicle) - to inform other drivers that there are more cars coming - so in fact all specialized cars have both BLUE-BLUE and RED-BLUE lights installed and used depending on the situation

Lived in CZ for 5 years. Great people and country! Loved every minute of it. Get onto motogp please and keep up the good work!

Greetings from Czech Republic! Thanks for checking my video, hope you enjoyed our emergency vehicles :)

In Euro Truck Simulator 2 (Czech game) you can actually drive to the ŠKODA Factory and pick-up some cargo there. In the game it’s called Scout cars and is located about 50km northeast from Prague.

The firefighting special you're interested in is a Tatra Triton made in cooperation with Excalibur Army. It's a civilian version of the military special designed for interventions in extreme conditions and dangerous environments. It is armoured and airtight. And the colour combination of the lights blue - red has only been used in the Czech Republic since 2018. Until then, they were only blue. The sound of the sirens is not always the same, but can be varied while driving.

Visit Czech Republic and especially Kopřivnice town - it's the home of Tatra company and there is also absolutely fabulous Tatra museum.

That armored truck at 2:08 (and its bigger cousin, 8x8 monster with 12 tons of water on board) was built for scenarios like ammo dump fire, industrial accident or massive forest fire. They used to have a tank for that (army surplus T-55 with huge water tank instead of turret and 2 remotely controlled nozzles), this should have similar performance but it's a lot easier on logistics.

I'm just as impressed at how clean the place is.

Police indeed had all blue lights here in the CZE, however they changed it to red and blue as they said the red lights has a longer wavelength and is seen further away and in bad weather... And also like that most if not all Skoda Combis have steel front bumper to avoid damages but also to be able to conduct car to car manoeuvres (during chases, etc...) And the tiny Toyota looks like a Toyota Aygo .. Its smaller than the Yaris and manufacture in the Toyota/Peugeot/Citroen plant in Kolín here

Something about emergency. In Czechia there are a lot of vehicles from diferent manufacturers. You can often see a Volskwagen crafter or Mercedes sprinter, also we use other VWs models like transporter...these are all vans. We also have normal cars. Mostly Škoda car's...models like Kodiaq, octavia or yeti. In Prague we also have an emergency truck, his call sign is ,,Golem" (I think, this one is a Mercedes as well). Every ground vehicle is colored by this reflective yellow color with same looking livery, and emergency cars uses red and blue lights. We also have some helicopters.

About that Czech Republic vs. Czechia thing. On 14 April 2016 the government agreed to make Czechia the official short name. So both terms are right. It's the same thing as Russian Federation vs. Russia. I personally think that the term Czechia kind off caught on in last 2 years. For example we use it as our name in our international hockey games which is of course always important event for us. Great vid btw, cheers from South Bohemia.

2:34 this is Excalibur Army Patriot II, main focus was for army but, Czech firefighters ordered it for fighting fire from close range, this vehicle was mainly used in our biggest forest fires in Hřensko. 2:52 this is Tatra Force or T815-7, again, main focus is for army but it is used as firefighting vehicle in Germany and Czech Republic.

Ahoj. Hi. Czech first responders (police, FD, ambulance) uses blue lights in the past. But from Oct 2018 there was change of law (rule) that they can use red and blue. The reason was that red is better visible in daytime then blue. and blue is very good for night time. So new vehicles after that would be equipped with red and blues. :)

Fun fact. Vehicle you seen at 5:00 (one with the crane) belongs to czech reilway. Yes our railway company got its own fire brigade. These guys got even their own tank.

Like two years ago, emeregncy vehicles in Czechia had only blue lights, but now they have red and blue

Hi there, in the Czech Republic we used to use all blue lights but now it's changing to blue-red for the red's better visibility in daylight. That's why you can see vehicles with both kinds of lights... BTW here's one more armored Tatra fire truck... 😉 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nsuZZL2qqKfVfJ8.html

Hi, I am an volunteer firefighter from Czech Republic. All of our emergency vehicles used to have blue light's. Now we are slowly changing it to red and blue. We have some more interesting stuff, for example we have a semi truck from Mercedes Benz and the trailer is like a big hospital in small trailer. You can unfold it and get medical treatment for a lot of people at once. Just to let you know, the police cars in front of the convoy are state police and the last car ( the white one with Městská policie written on it) are like a City police. As you saw the medical cars, the small Škoda in front of them is a car where the doctor is driven to the pacient. They come few minutes faster than the ambulance to provide instant treatment.

6:07 last white car is from Municipal Police in Kolin. I guess that is were that parade took place.

The 3rd ambulance was indeed a FIAT Ducato, you actually get that vehicle platform in the USA too, but branded as a RAM ProMaster.

Yes, you are right, the last ambulance is a Fiat Ducato, also known as RAM Promaster in the US.

Just like in most European countries emergency lights are officially blue but they often use red as an additional color as it is more visible at a distance.

in CZ all emergency responders had alwas just blue lights, but recently (just few years ago) it has been slowly changing to blue and red. So older cars have blue, newer cars have red/blue.

The reason some vehicles have RED-BLUE lights and some have only BLUE-BLUE is beacause there was a law that dictated the use of only blue emergency lights, but it was changed quite recently (2018 or 2019 I think). Therefore some "older" vehicles have only blue lights. Also that truck at 2:15 is a CZS-15 Triton (short fo cisternová zodolněná stříkačka) made by Excalibour Army in cooperation with Tatra Trucks and THT polička. Its used mainly for operations in extreme and dangerous environment. This vehicle also has a cool big bro called CZS-40 Titan and CV-40 (kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qtx-gKqEsdK9nI0.html )

Thank you for the praise of our Czech rescues and greetings from the Czech Republic

Fun fact: The fireman siren on the cars is so loud that if you're in a tunel and the siren is going off, you almost won't hear anything else than the siren, maybe even a gunshot is more silent.

Hi, we used to not use red and blue police warning lights but now I'm not sure America's inspiration has started to come in and has included rambar and this patern of warning lights.

My dad used to work on Tatra trucks before we emigrated to the states. I love seeing how excited you get about these vehicles, like a little kid (no offense meant at all, it's endearing). I landed on your channel after watching your UK video (living in England now). This would not normally be my thing, but anything UK or Czech holds my interest, haha.

Its kinda sad that they didnt showed the paramedic's truck, its really big and beatiful, many peoples are out of their minds when they see that

Fun fact: the first firefighters in Czechia date back to the 1850's, with the very first emergency group dating all the way back to 1821. State organized police in the modern sense dates back to 1754. And health emergency services date back to 1795, although it took several decades before a proper service was established.

My husband drives the Triton very often and I have also sat in it. It's a amazing car 🙈

The Czech Republic uses both blue and red beacons, and Euro truck simulator and American truck simulator from SCS Software are also from the Czech Republic.

I am happy about your enthusiasm and that you like our Tatras and Skodas. Greetings from the Czech Republic

Hello, I live in the Czech Republic and I am very happy that someone from the USA is interested in us and our IZS component

The first tiny car is Toyota Aygo ;) 5:03 if you like Skoda - the car going next to the parade in opposite direction is in fact electric Skoda Enyaq ;) 6:05 this Toyota is a city/town police, all police cars before are from state police 6:14 the cars after the parade are again Skoda cars - Fabia, Felicia and Octavia ;) I am glad you like it and impressed that you know Tatra :)

As many people already said EA stands for Excalibur Army, what probably no one said is that Patriot(Army)/Triton(Firefighters)/Rioter(police) use not only TATRA suspension/chassis system, but also theire unique aircooled turbodiesel V8 ;-) and regarding beacon light color red and blue is pretty new (no more then 5 years) and mostly on police cars and couple Ambulance cars (mostly new cars), big fire trucks are still with just blue (as it was for all emergency vehicles), back than you can also tell if the car who is aproching is Fire/Ambu/POPOmobile just by the sound of siren because there were different And I forget that that little (smallest :-) ) Toyota is also made in Czech Republic

The history of the Tatra company dates back to 1850 and is one of the oldest truck manufacturers in the world. The company has made many significant developments and innovations in the field of vehicle production, especially in the field of trucks. Tatra trucks are renowned for their reliability, durability and excellent performance on difficult terrain.

The Czech fire truck is the new Scania P440 from Ostrava city, amazing color( special from the Moravian-Silesian region), perfect siren :)

As for emergency lights, we use to have only blue, but recently (like 1-2y back) red-blue combination was introduced to new wehicles because one of the colors is better visible in daylight and the other during night. Today, some of older vehicles still has only blue lights. The armored fire vehicle is Excalibur Army special called Triton, 18tons max weight, balistic level II protection. It has 2.000 litres water jet operated from inside the cab. It is used for firefighting in areas with danger of explosions.

1:15 Toyota Aygo 2:05 Truck build for the czech military (mostly Tatra running gear) 3:04 some polaris buggy (those fly on trails and small mountain roads) 4:13 Euro Truck has emergency vehicles; you will see accidents ecc.. and some times you will have to deviate cause the road might be closed. If you buy the special transport dlc you will be escorted by ''pilot'' cars; with mods u can drive basicly anything. 5:42 Fiat Ducato

I have work with many Scania engines and the engines that are used in ship and trucks have a minimum 5 tons of pressure per piston is insane.

In Czechia we also had all blue lights on police and fire department cars not too long ago. I think it's been about a year now, that we have the "american style" lights.

The Tatra fire truck would also be my favourite 😉 The sirens have interchangeable modes, the faster ones are probably used when more attention is needed. Also I believe that when the vehicles brake harder, it goes into a very fast annoying siren sound, probably automatically, to alert the drivers further. Another interesting thing is the rendez-vous (RV) system for ambulances - in more severe cases when an actual doctor is needed, not only the paramedics, a separate passanger vehicle is sent with a driver and the doctor. That is usually something like Škoda Octavia combi, Yeti (seen here), Kodiaq, or even the electric VW ID.4, with a lot of equipment in the trunk and on back seats. The RV meets the ambulance on the site. That vehicle can also be rerouted to more critical place if needed. On the way back, the RV can help the ambulance in serious emergency situations, by accelerating ahead, stopping traffic at an interseciton to let the ambulance drive through smoothly, then accelerate ahead it again and repeat. Really efficient.

Most of Australia's fire engines are Scanias - and Isuzu's for rural fire service. Canberra's are light green. Scania does have comprehensive headquarters here for the trucks and buses, maintenance and repairs and I think modifications. The semi high speed train that runs along the entire QLD coast, from the capital Brisbane to Cairns is a SAAB - Scania ( SAAB do make aircraft - used extensively in Australia - REX airlines.) The train is a tilt train, so it tilts into corners to remain stable, when the tracks cannot support very fast trains.

Until recently, we only had blue beacon lights in the Czech Republic. I think the change to red-blue came in 2021.

In the Czech Republic, we also have fairly well-managed access to weapons, and obtaining a firearms license is well managed. I don't have a gun and I don't feel threatened when I walk down the street at night.

Germany and Austria have blue lights because it gets diffused the best at longer distances. It was adopted in 1933 for the police and fire service (which was part of the police back then) so the bombers in WWII wouldn't be able to spot it well.

it reminds me some game with firefighters I played in like 2004, it was very cool game, I think it was called literally Fire Department, but I am not sure, name was translated to Czech, you had to move with those cars to put them more close to your foot firefighters to make water refilling faster and when fire was blocking your way, you ran out of water fast, it was a cool game

5:26 So these are what is called a "rendezvous" system. It's basically that you have seperate vehicles for the EMS specialists (the middle one) and for the doctors (with M.D degree; the small one). The way it works is, there are situations where only the ambulance is needed, like a broken leg and situations where you need a doctor, like mass traffic accidets. This way you can either dispatch only an ambulance or both of them (sometimes it can happen, that the M.D. can be dispatched from a different hospital - according to who and where is available atm.). Also, they are independent, so the specialists can get there and provide basic aid and when the doctor arrives, they then provide more sophisticated help/expertise. The biggest one is I believe for massive accidents, because it carries a lot of equipment, but no stretcher (while the middle one can carry a stretcher)

Here's an interesting fact for you, a long time ago Australia used blue only for police, red only for ambulance and blue and red for fire. You could tell what they were from a distance just on the lights, now we use red and blue for all.

Love to see my country getting some love and respect!

Hello nad greeting from Czechia. Since you love trucks and Skodas, you might be interested in one and only truck they made called Škoda Xena

5:00 fun fact; this car with big black wheels is not actually just some car, because it have a special modification. After pressing a button, a secret railway wheels will show up, and you can drive this car also on railway. Give attention to big letter "Ž", that means "správa železnic (pokud se nepletu)" > "railway administration"

As of today, the Fire Rescue Department has two new special vehicles. In Hlucín, firefighters have taken over the largest tanker in the Czech Republic with a volume of 21,000 liters and also a durable syringe labeled CZS 15. The firefighters call it Triton and will use it during attacks in extreme conditions. The car is equipped to handle fires in forests or factories where explosions are at risk. Rescue unit began to seek it, among other things, after its experience

Hi from Czech Republic :) The lights used to be blue-blue, but after 2018 it is possible to use blue-red. Each color has its advantages and disadvantages. But the combination of red and blue covers a much wider light spectrum and is more practical. Red color is more visible in fog, snow, heavy rain, etc...

Hi from Czech republic ;) Hello America, I admire your machines full of chrome ;)

Czechia used to have only blue sirens. Recently they swithed to red and blue for most of the newer cars.

2:10 this car is a ballistic vehicle that is used, for example, in places where there may be ammunition, but also in places where a dangerous substance leaks, otherwise it is funny to watch a person from a foreign country react to our IZS👍🏼😅

I'm from Czech and I love my country.🇨🇿🇨🇿🇨🇿🇨🇿🇨🇿🇨🇿

Thanks for a vid, this is actually from my nearest town(Kolín - central Bohemia region) ..this event is traditionaly held every year at spring for yeears( 15 years+ for sure) - it is called "A day of the emergency rescuers" and they bring all those vehicles on the town square so people and especially children can look inside them and see how they work.. there is usually police, firefighters and ambulance and the military actually participate too but they got their own space outside of the town.

Hello! Thank you for the wonderful video and I'm delighted to see you like our emergency response vehicles! To explain a few things you were confused about... The liveries on our Police cars used to be White with a Green Stripe since as far as I can recall, actually. I believe since the separation of Czechoslovakia in 1993. During the start of the 21st century, we have transitioned from those white and green, into the liveries you see here, silver with blue and neon yellow! With that, we used to use all-blue Emergency Lights, for all three of the emergency responses. However, with modernization, we have moved on to use red-blue lights for the Police, and the blues are slowly being phased out in favor of the red-blues. This happened during the latter half of the 2010's, if I recall correctly. Another thing is about the medical liveries. Czech Republic is separated into 14 parts called "kraje". Sort of "Counties" if you will. And in every single county, the insignia of the local branch of the Police Department, the insignia of the local branch of Fire Department, and the livery of the local Emergency Medical Service, all change depending with the coat of arms and flag of the "County", for example, from the texts on the EMS vehicles, you can see that this is the Central Bohemian kraj, and with the last vehicle, you can see "Kolín" which is the name of the city they're having the parade in. Liveries and insignia in Prague, or other kraje, Moravian, Silesian, Southern Bohemian, etc. will be different, and easily, you can distinguish them! For example, Prague heavily centers around Red and Yellow, as those are the colors on the flag of the city of Prague. :) Finally, the last vehicle, full white with livery, that is not the Czech Police as a whole, like the State Police, but only the localized, Obecní Policie Kolín, Municipal or Metropolitan Police, basically. A lot of cities and towns have "Městská Policie" or "Obecní Policie", which unlike the Czech Police, is not under the Ministry of Interior, but under the local city magistrate or town hall. They do not have the same rights and privileges as the State police do, and their jurisdiction covers only the limits of their city or town. Hope I was able to expand your horizons on what all of the liveries, Police forces, and emergency lights mean! And don't be afraid to contact me for further information or even possibly, if you'd be so inclined, collaboration in your videos, where I can explain the things you see live, if you're ever inclined to react to Czech emergency response again! :)¨ Have a swell day, and if you read this far down, you're a star.

I'm from the Czech Republic and as far as IZS units are concerned, we have two types of carsThe old types are only blue and the new types are red and blue. Also IZS Zratka stands for Integrated Rescue Services.These two types are also related to our laws. If anyone is interested, look on the internet and find it or write a comment here and I will explain it to you

You should google up Czech Ambulance “Golem”! Pretty cool vehicle. Greetings from Czechia ❤

Btw. we have been switching to blue-red beacons only in recent years, most emergency vehicles in the Czech Republic still have pure blue beacons.

The EA logo belongs to Excalibur Army, a company that manufactures army vehicles and tanks. It is based in Šternberk in the Czech Republic!

We used to have all emergency vehicles on only blue lights, but all new vehicles will come in Red n Blue eventually. It started with Police, but Firemen and Ambulances are changing too, they just started later with this change Personally i think Red n Blue looks alot better and its much more visible in dense traffic.

👍 Little lesson how to pronouce Škoda auto brand: That "Š" at begining of the word try to pronounce as a "sh" in word "share", "shake". At the and it will sound like saying [shkoda]. Good videos. KZfaq algorithm works in mysterious ways, that you were suggested to me in Czechia. As I'm saying, "It's good, but always can be improved."

lol, im from Czechia and im learning about our emergency vehicles from US channel:D Glad my firefighters have such a cool equipment:)

In Austria, Police, Ambulance, and Fire Fighters use only blue flashing lights while emergency driving. For the fire department i can claim, a red flashing light shows the leading command unit in place, and a green one shows the collecting place for the SCBA-bearers.

I believe that armored vehicle is used for firefighting in former ordnance attempted areas. In East Germany, such vehicles are used in forest fires, in areas where munitions from World War II are still lying in the ground. Have a good day. =D

It´s awesome to see somebody love that Triton ( firefighter truck with EA). What is more awesome is to see that truck driving , because i work at Excalibur Army and i make parts for this trucks ,T72EA tanks and many more xD

The Czech Parlament updated law about beacons kinda recently, that's why someone got just blue lights. They wasn't allowed to use red lights for this purpose before. Btw. It's like mixed fleet of vehicles from all Czechia regions not like one region or even town.

I am really happy you posting this videos about Czechia! Because i really enjoy this videos about Czechia. I living here and actually this state is beatiful! But Škoda Cars is from 1991 year is part of Volkswagen Group but Škoda is still most big firm in Czechia! Love your content! 2:20 Fact about the "armored" vehicle. This vehicles is firefighter and serves on inaccessible locations for example: Woods, muddy roads, wet dirty roads and so on! And i like 2 this Vehicle.

Last 5 years Czechia has been really been expanding its arsenal of emergency and military vehicles, I really like that my country is finally getting on par with some of the highest ranking countries out there

4:55 Those two with the yellow Z on the side are actually not our national fire service, but a fire service of the state company that owns most of the Czech railway network (Not Czech Railways, they are another state owned company that leases tracks from SZ (translated to Railway Management))

Apart from that truck from Excalibur Army, there are fire-brigade Tatras with armored cabs, I think it's Force line, very cool looking. And I believe there are few fire tanks for very special tasks as well. As for games, I'm not an expert,but AFAIK you can drive a lot of stuff including cool trucks in Farm Simulator.

Tatra is awesome and very old car brand 1850-1890 depending , i have one what i bought very long time ago 603 and 613 :) and military vehicles are legendary same as paris dakar :) i think in 1987 they make model who drove around world

Did you know that name of Tatra is derived by iconic Tatry mountain in Slovakia? (Formerly CzechoSlovakia) 🏔️❄️

Only blue lights were allowed until 2018 in Czechia, since then also red can be used, but only in combination with blue. As almost all lights since approx. 2016 are multicolor, they just switched one half to red.

Hello. I'm from the Czech Republic and it's so nice to look at how American reacts to our videos/cars. In the Czech Republic (mainly in Brno (city) is lots of firetrucks brand Scania. I love it. And yeah Škoda/Skoda I think is the most popular brand of car. Btw our police cars have a lot of styles of sirens. I play ets2 too and it's a really good game actually, it was created in the Czech Republic :D

the toyota at 1:17 is the toyota aygo and is a compact car for the cities

They have a push bumper because Czech police officers learned to pit maneuver in the US. Škoda is actually not a Czech car anymore, although it is produced in the Czech Republic, the design is of German origin and in 1996 Škoda was bought by the Volkswagen concern. On the state police cars and ambulance cars there is a light reflecting the sticker.

Czech emergency services used all blue lights for a long time but then were allowed to use red and blues. Most newer vehicles will have red and blue lights while older ones have blues.

I was hoping for more ambulances to appear, especially the special ones Prague department has in use. I like the EMS module Golem, but it's hard to find any video of it.

hi, i am from czech republic and i like your enthusiasm for our country and for our stuff.. pretty reaction video buddy!

2:00 my dad made the design of that vehicle with one of his colleagues and he was glad you like it! :)

I remember that when I was little I went to a fire station with my class, because our class teacher knew one of the firemen. I remember trying on the fireman clothes, riding in the firetruck etc. but the most interesting thing there was a tank painted red, we were then shown a presentation of it's uses, and it is used for derailed trains and other heavy objects. I still have the footage from about 5-7 years ago.

You should react to: "How different Countries React To Emergency Services"

Well I'm impressed as a Czech guy! I didn't even know we have such variety of emergency vehicles. I guess it´s good thing I didn't know. It´s better to do not need their services right? ;-)

2:22 - Tatra Triton is in fact (military)armored vehicle in red color... we have it for a case like an explosion in munition depo or a volcano eruption 🌋

We were using only blue lights in Czech Republic, but sientists found out, that in heavy fog you can see red light much more better (sooner) so we use now both lights.