Behind the scenes tour of real life working UK Fire Station

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🚒 Station Manager Leigh Prior takes you behind the scenes on a tour of King's Lynn North fire station in Norfolk. 📹
This video was part of our first ever Virtual Open Day, and we want to thank everyone for watching along with us at home. We loved seeing all your comments and we can't wait to be able to welcome you back in person in the future.
🌐 Visit www.norfolk.gov.uk/fire to find out more about us.

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@davidmack4495 2 жыл бұрын

very interesting..I'm a retired FF/paramedic from southern calif, and I find it fascinating to look how FD's from around the world operate.

@Thxmas_e 3 жыл бұрын

Thankyou for your service helping everyone.

@robnewman6101 2 жыл бұрын

I use to watch Fireman Sam on video back in the 90s when I was Little Hallingbury Primary School kid.

@firefighterfan2010 9 ай бұрын

Nice tour!🚒👨‍🚒🇬🇧🔥

@thehighwaycowboy2822 Жыл бұрын

I am ex Firefighter from GMFRS. 90s And 00s. It used to be a great job years ago before all the rank structures changed. We were actually allowed to laugh and joke and would get through some of the traumatic events by playing silly pranks on eachother. We always got the job done. Nowadays everyone is a Micro Manager and grassing eachother up, end up on a disciplinary for the slightest things now . I was retired out on ill health as an Operational LFM

@liamphilbin7256 Жыл бұрын

ooooooooooo🔸

@pepperroni6252 2 жыл бұрын

My Grandad was a fire fighter out of Kings Lynn

@beany2456 Жыл бұрын

Big shout too all our fire fighter particularly yesterday......stay safe

@Ton459 2 жыл бұрын

Grate use full information As am currently awaiting to join the fire service department lots of interesting things that can be taken in as a reminder to keep me updated! From Cumbria district.

@X-GamerPro-HD Жыл бұрын

Very cool.

@nashywales 3 жыл бұрын

Very informative and helpful video, thank you. One question, why would you need to lift the car during an RTC as shown toward the end of the video. Thanks in advance

@smudge5410 3 жыл бұрын

Hi There I'm from Cumbria not Norfolk but we use the same techniques The car isn't lifted. When a crew arrive on the scene of a Road Traffic Collection they do what's called vehicle stabilisation. What that consists of is various chocks, blocks and wedges are used under the vehicle to stop the vehicle rocking, rolling and to keep the vehicle steady this reduces the risk of any further spinal injuries to the patient and if the hand break isn't on then it reduces the car from rolling or moving. Good question and I hope that explaination answered it for you😊

@billlarrabee9436 2 жыл бұрын

That is a nice setup. Here in the states most professional firefighters have very similar stations. The situation is very different for the volunteer stations. As you mentioned once, money is the allowable entity. Some of our volunteers are still working out of old buildings that were built 50 or more years ago and limit the size and numbers of vehicles. Plus our systems have become too sufisticated to allow some companies to meat the requirements. Overall most have done their very best to keep up. Yet everyday more requirements keep the pressure on. Great video!

@EnjoyFirefighting 2 жыл бұрын

50 years is a rather moderate age for stations on this side of the pond. You can see many departments operate from more than 100 year old stations, however depending on the specific country in Europe station size and placement can be very different; Thus stations from both volunteer and career departments tend to be very large in Germany, the largest of career FD stations have more than 40 or 50 truck bays. Also among volunteer departments there are many with more than 20 truck bays

@jordanelliott3567 2 жыл бұрын

This maybe a silly question but can u become a firefighter if u aren't a fan of heights or is something you would help a recruit get though?

@NorfolkFireandRescue 2 жыл бұрын

Hi Jordan, we think you might need to conquer the fear before applying.

@alexr3599 2 жыл бұрын

About your fire cadet programme how come lynn dont do one?

@ukjentperson3741 2 жыл бұрын

0:20 Did I understand correctly that most of the firefighters do their work on a voluntary basis (at least in this city)? Great video and interesting insight! And I would like to say thank you twice: On the one hand not to deactivate the comment function and on the other hand not to wear a covid mask during the video. Thanks! Greetings from Germany

@EnjoyFirefighting 2 жыл бұрын

thse on call / volunteers are only as back up

@NorfolkFireandRescue 2 жыл бұрын

Hi, No all of our firefighters at NFRS are paid. However many (on-call) are primarily employed elsewhere and carry an alerter so they can attend incidents for us, they are paid a retainer and also for the incidents. Thanks for your interest!

@ashlyn4everold 2 жыл бұрын

I have a question Have you ever had a fire in the station?

@NorfolkFireandRescue 2 жыл бұрын

Not in that fire station Ashlyn but there was a fire in another Norfolk fire station in 2014.

@ashlyn4everold 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for replying and answering my question but my family are wondering if the equipment kept safe? Were they fire proof or did they burn?

@NorfolkFireandRescue 2 жыл бұрын

@@ashlyn4everold I'm not too sure of the details of what burnt in that particular incident. But our clothing etc is designed to withstand heat and flame, but would burn eventually. Have you watched our Ask a Firefighter video on You Tube? Our crew members answer some of these kind of questions there if you want to take a look?

@ashlyn4everold 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you I’ll take a look

@ashlyn4everold 2 жыл бұрын

I enjoyed watching it and I learned a few stuff 🚒

@Loadarine 2 жыл бұрын

What do they use fire cars for?

@roboman34 2 жыл бұрын

Me , 51 years old , bexleyheath , south east london , .., going to be a fire fighter ....YES old , buty want to know where i can be

@destinybeezer3945 2 жыл бұрын

no deep fat fryer in that kitchen!

@danielfowles6036 Жыл бұрын

If 999 calls comes in you need live your voices outside ok have one

@baylorsmith5610 Жыл бұрын

So glad I’m a US firefighter. British fire service looks miserable.

@DanielOrtegoUSA Ай бұрын

Unfortunately, most of these European fire department videos, seldom show the interior of their rigs. 🤷‍♂️

@firejam78 2 жыл бұрын

The pole drops will be taken away because your coping without using them

@kangookamper8149 2 жыл бұрын

Well I'm sure as adults they're competent at using stairs, the idea of the pole is to get to the appliance as fast as possible, so yes using the stairs is a means of getting to the appliance on the ground floor but the pole is obviously a quicker and safer way of travel than running down stairs.