You gotta be kidding?

right?! without a headset, my ears would've been screwed lmao! thanks kraig, glad you enjoyed.

FB1 Response Videos HI thanks you for your video

FB1 Response Videos My department doesn’t have headsets in our trucks

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i actually just rode out at this station again last week but decided not to film anything. glad you enjoyed, thanks for watching.

38’s, 58’s and 172’s are sort of in weird locations truck-company wise. for structure fires, LAC will dispatch an LA City task force or the Culver City truck company. for other calls where a truck is needed but not as quickly, they’ll call LF170 to avoid requesting from other agencies.

Who cares. Just enjoy the video.

@@FB1ResponseVideos E58 Must have been unavailable, but wouldn't you think Q110 would be closer? It was a 6 plus mile response for LF 170.

The Truck company has a lot of the specialized salvage equipment an engine doesn't have.

oh yeah. great crews, great rigs, and great responses.

thanks FB4!!!

negative, LF170 was responding to 58's area with Engine 172. i'm not sure where Engine 173 was headed.

not usually, they're the closest county truck to 58's and 172's. usually for fires, they'll dispatch LA City or Culver City

@@FB1ResponseVideos I think it's a keep the Quint in the Marina thing. 110's is a bit different in its isolation from other stations.

You get a truck and pump. Pumps role is to supply water to the truck. 4th person on the truck rides on the engine and first responsibility is to grab the hydrant for the pump then rejoin their truck crew. Engineer connects water supply, then stands by to supply water to the truck. Or so the sorry goes. Nice system really. You get all the tools to take on a small incident.

thank you. there was a lot of traffic at that time of the morning & people are a bit slow when it comes to reacting to emergency vehicles lol.

and how...every time i see an emergency response theres atleast one bad driver, that gets in the way, especially here in West LA.

yes, the MDT's have maps.

itchyboy they have the quint and engine as the light force, they respond together and are based out of the same station

Thanks. I notice that some stations have an 'engine only' setup, while some have a 'tiller only' setup. How do they manage?

LA County has very few light forces. like you said, most quints run alone and most engines run alone but their light forces operate just like LA City's, staffed with 6 (4 on quint and 2 on engine). i'm honestly not sure of their exact reasoning of using light forces if they only have so few of them. every single LA City truck company is a light force except Truck 9.

If a tiller and engine are from separate stations, do they ever get paired up as a light force? How different are the duties of a county tiller from the city ones?

negative, a light force is specifically a quint and an engine married together from the same station. but don't get too confused .. for example, 30's has a quint and an engine but they're not a light force, and if they get dispatch to something together, it still will not be called a light force because they're not usually a light force. LA City runs trucks, no water. County runs quints with a little water on board but not necessarily enough to get by. LA County light forces usually come into play when a station with only a quint (i.e 158's, 161's and 166's) goes into a reserve truck (without water) so they'll send an extra guy and an engine there and call it a temporary light force. other than that, i'm not quite sure why county used them in only certain areas, i'm sure there's some sort of logic and strategic placement behind it.

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it’s hard and quite dangerous for anyone to be in a hurry in LA, the main issue is that everyone IS in a hurry. plus, as you can imagine, the quint is huge and carries tons of equipment so being careful is possibly the best choice. also, the shops are always really busy so if a rig gets wrecked, they won’t see it for a year. 170s actually recently got out of reserves...both of them! thanks for watching (:

Makes sense. Thanks for the reply.

@@melbourne727 Slow to me..... .

@@FB1ResponseVideos Thankfully the quint is the second company at most stations, but not where I live, Q15's area and it takes forever for them to get anywhere compared to E59 that I see flying down Scott Av all the time.

As a former Engineer, you are limited by the power plant on your apparatus, and you have to drive as the conditions and call information dictate.

an outdoor flooding: could be a water main break, usually the local water department is then called after the water is shut off. an indoor flooding: FD does a water sweep. thank you for watching.

@@FB1ResponseVideos ok cool and thanks for replying back.

right, haha. longest code 3 ride I've ever been on but it was cool and super loud as you can tell.

we actually got a few calls on the way back to the area lol. thanks for watching.

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they couldn't do what we had to do at the flooding call (if we actually made it there) lol, thanks adam.

your welcome!:D

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negative. Engine 172 requested a truck co. for water sweep, LF170 was canceled at time of dispatch but the memo didn’t get across.

they were way out of their area during rush hour Inglewood (los angeles) traffic. 13min isn't bad at all. I've worked Inglewood and it gets really busy

Sacramento Fire Department it's not in their district, and there were already units on scene way before them

it took 13 minutes with blaring lights and sirens, that says a lot about the traffic as you can see in the video. plus, it was simply to assist in a flooding call, no lives were really at risk. as you saw in the video, they had to travel through 172’s district, 173’s district, and into 58’s. also, LF170 isn’t first due for fire calls in 58’s area, an LA City task force or Culver City’s truck will be dispatched.

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code 3 to a simple assist and no lives were at risk... I say the commuters were at risk for your lights and sirens response to a non emergency call... for shame.

to be fair, 170s had a drill planned in 58s area. we went to it but reports of a traffic collision with persons trapped came out in 58s. everything worked out.

Probably because the a**holes that don't pullover won't let those that do back in to traffic. There is a lot of Un-Americanism here.

water sweep.

Our trucks do have modern sirens, however, most fire departments still use the federal Q because of tradition. Personally I love the sound of the Q when it winds up, and I think it's what makes the American fire truck American.

Those “stupid sirens” as you call them are the most effective on the market today. Due to the sound proofing in todays vehicles most do not get the early warning that the Q provides.

Still better than hi-los

Anything but a rumbler siren please.