My dad was a firefighter for 27 years. Full respect to all firefighters everywhere. Thank you for your service. 🚒❤️

I was a serving leading firefighter with essex fire and rescue service for 36 years and wish to heap praise on all firefighters especially those in the big cities fighting against all the traffic 👍

The stress of getting through small London streets, the relief of getting onto a open 4 lane one. I mean, that bit with the engine driving through that 1 lane road then having to stop by the bus as people run out into the street, that must've been stressful.

Dennis Metz Turntable Ladder (camera), Dennis Pump Escape (rear roller shutter), and Saxon Pump Ladder (open rear pump bay), all 3 turning out of LFB A24 Soho. Great machines, built by great English companies.

i wonder how far they will get before they get stuck in traffic, (5 seconds after they leave the station) wow thats a record XD

I once met the Chief Fire Officer of London Fire Brigade, Mr Brian Robinson. He told me that the crews of LFB A24 Soho spent all their time climbing in and out of actresses’ dressing room windows…

I am member from a volunteer für Brigade in Germany and also member of the B.F.S.A. my füll respect for all gute Fighter in the world

I wish people would stop suggesting Britain gets "Q" sirens. They work great in America, but that's because they suit the environment, driving styles, and the vehicles they're on. We've used (and still do) 2 tone air-horns sirens because they fit in with our environments, vehicles and driving style. Doesn't New York have an embargo on the use of Q sirens because they're just too loud for the general population? The idea of a siren is to get people out the way, not wake up the city.

LFBs responds time are pretty impressive despite traffic.

nice video, shows the skill and patience of the drivers.

those appliances are surprisingly agile for their size

Many thanks for posting.

Loving this. Respect

I love the Dennis pump and the Dennis TL! I also love those uk PA sirens! But it would of been better if they turned on there 2 tone air horns trough the traffic jams!

Loving the old Dennis Pump!

@jdrepiv - In those days the turn-out was always PL, P, TL, other (Pump Ladder, Pump, Turntable Ladder, Special) with the Stn Officer riding the Pump. The turn-out bulbs on the ceiling reflect that sequence also - Red, Green, Yellow, Blue.

very brave men-god we need you right now!

I love those bells

This is why urban departments, especially in Europe have longer response times

Fantastic One!👍

Looks like the White Watch. Driving in central London was great fun on roads designed for horses and carriages. 'Wing mirrors don't count' was the motto. You could judge those lovely slab-sided appliances to fag paper gaps. A24 had one square mile back then. 5 minutes to get there, 40 minutes getting back

1992 & not using two-tones on fire engines? Maybe it was just my area that still used two-tones on the engines right up into the 2000s. I came to this video hoping to be able to hear that nostalgic noise again.

Damn it's worse than New York trying to get through traffic in London during an emergency.

Me and my good lady have been in London this weekend seeing the sights, and celebrating her birthday. And I have just driven that exact route today in my car, and so I couldn’t wait to tell my missus about this particular video, (I first watched it years ago!), and I specifically focused on the point where the silly twat nearly got flattened by the sneaky TL! Just showed it her...... and guess what... she wasn’t impressed! But I’m so glad I watched it again. It was a lot quieter today though!!!

Far better sirens in those days than the naff ones these days.

really good too see this vid again it really shows the great skill those drivers have. thanx for reposting it.

The Volvo appliance seen running as the Pump in this video now belongs to a friend of mine and we plan to restore her to operational condition.

I always thought the LFB started using Volvo's like the one at 1.03 around late 1996 and early 1997 after Dennis appliances were taken off run and put in reserve.

Classic case of not adjusting the siren tone to how many vehicles are driving in convoy, I believe it's the front passenger of the ALP who says to the driver change the tone after a taxi and pedestrian cross the it's path, but fair play it was really new technology :-)

Ah yes, Pall mall and st. james street was both one way back then and shaftesbury avenue at the trocadero didn't have the bus lane option then so they was forced to turn left and wait for the traffic to move.

Maneuvering/driving in that traffic is a nightmare !!

Great that this vid is back :) Please buy some two tone air horns even if you have to have whip round to get them. They really help !!

@04smallmj Yeah, my Wife is American and having witnessed first hand the noise that is the mechanical Q siren, I can say the public complaints here in Britain would be drowned out by it. xD

Can somebody please tell me where can I find the old shout allarm bell from 0:07 tone? I´d love to have it as an alarm clock.

wow ur right that is a lot of tradffic. great video faved!

the joys of driving for the lfb

@SECAmbCFR thank u 4 that i always wondered why you looked up when you run down stairs but now i know :)

Not a foreign plate in site ! Thoughs were the days !

It would help if one of the appliances used Two Tone Air Horns, I have found these excellent at moving traffic. There must be loads of these spare, please put them on the appliance :)

the 1st pump is a dennis and the 2nd is a 1st gen volvo fl6 with saxon bodywork

wow so much congestion even in front of the station can barely can move.

That traffic pattern is a nightmare

in glasgow fire and rescue take different routes in case one gets stuck

all the rollers and bentleys just parked wherever !!

I thought the London Fire Brigade disorder the Volvo FL6 Saxons until 1995 and 1998 to replace the Dennis SSs and the Dodge 100 Series Pumps

@AwsomeFan2010 an AFA is an Automatic Fire Alarm

You guys are lucky they pull over. In Los Angeles, California down in Watts everyone drives like they got their license at a Pub while they were drunk. They don't pull over they race us or pull over to the wrong side of the road. I wish you could see it, but the fire department won't let us film while we are working. It is pretty funny though

YES! THIS VIDEO IS BACK!

I wonder with the congestion charge nowadays if three engine following the same route would get there any quicker ??

@philatthepub what year did the LFB first have the volvo saxons?

missing the old two tones.

I love te message at the end, this should be printed in big bold letters on every dring licence, with a warning fall to heed message could cost you 3 points and £500 fine.

@Someloke8895 Yeah, mechanical Qs are illegal in NYC, probably because of how loud they are. They must be almost deafening in stationary traffic and for pedestrians, especially when they are used at their highest pitch for a long time... Martin horns are pretty good though and those are mechanical.

well doen to those drivers, its bad enough driving a car in london let alone a machine that size. ROA for them all (round of applause)

Proper old skool 90s or 80s filmage! and good ole denis too

What is the pedestrian at 1:23 thinking? "Oh look, another fire truck? Well, I'll just nip across the road now." Dolt.

How many LF's & Subs between the 3 PL-P-Ariel appliances ?

Nice

yes the 90s before they changed the chime to a better one

very nice video, but missing the two tones

boy that traffic!!

too bad the firemen didn't whip open the doors when that bike rider whipped by.

What happens if LFB ram or hit cars with their fire engines? Does the Met police have the authority to arrest firefighters or does the UK law forbid that?

I am constantly appalled by the uncaring behaviour of London drivers especially the London cabbies. Compare their driving and the way in which USA drivers give way to fire appliances. It should be mandatory in this country for all drivers to pull into the nearside and stop when any emergency vehicle either approaches or intends to overtake..

just watched this and 2nd pup away is a volvo fl6 isnt it

It doesn't look like they were getting out of the way of the first one either.

Lol nice video. Do the people there know how to move out the way when they hear sirens. The ones that was walkin across the street.... and the two cars that pulled directly in front of the fire truck and cut him off..... really?

@Someloke8895 Aah, OK. Yeah, there would be a lot of complaints about that haha

Silly question what's a AFA for the uninitiated?? Is it All Fire Appliances??

a surreal experience, it seems people have no awareness.

they were were a year or 2 old at the time of the video

Good

Is it uncommon in the UK that all trucks of one station are en route together? in the country where I live the customary battalion condsists of three trucks and when a fire gets called in it's nearly always the entire battalion that gets dispatched. Of course not if there is only a car or a pile of waste on fire.

2 Lanes actually, but only one was free.

@joelwhitaker That traffic does suck. That must be a pain to get to a fire

Obviously 1992 but London hasn’t changed. Traffic is still just as bad if not worse. People could be burning to death in such instances, this is why I feel London needs some of its roads to be dedicated emergency and fire routes. If it means car drivers, taxis’s and buses etc can’t use them so be it, people’s lives are worth more.

And here I thought New York City was bad. Wow

haha and people just walk out infront of a moving fire engine, unbelievable.

Wow, I bet FDNY jakes feel better about their traffic problems watching watching this!

Proper old skool lfb

What a shame,look how long it took to get thru.how old are these rigs?

Maybe Boris the Buffoon dhould watch this and realise why London stations should have been so close

Beautiful Trucks.I bet the drivers of these trucks wish they had a snow plow on front of trucks to move the cars out of way.

It would be faster if fire crews went by foot and mailed equipment to the required address. Sad but true, not it all cases people in cars are evil blockers of emergency services, I was a witness to few times (by chance, right) that some woman driver just got scared by all the noise and dramatic situation of such vehicles passing by. In driving schools they teach you that you should allow them to pass by. In real life - you have to be really skilled to make some room for you and them.

And all because the lady loves milk tray!!!

night mare driving in these conditions but thats london-and then u get people asking---------why is it taking fire brigade so long to respond to call? this is why

3 pumps to an afa, God now a days we only send one

London’s Burning, anyone?

Please Air horn tone

soon be able beam all the traffic up scotty UK

How many hours per mile do they do 😂

Yikes! The cyclist at 3:25 wants a good talking-to.

What is the matter with some of those drivers, and more to the point pedestrians- can't they see and hear there are emergency vehicles in a hurry????

FIRE BRIGADE LONDON 🚒 TREVOR HARRIS

They should have reloated Soho Fire Station. The Roads are far to busy now. Ive seem the Fire Engines held up in Traffic a few times over the years.

@gavgav27 yeh it really annoys me people blocking the way and also ambulance chasers! Abusing situation to get through quicker.

Get the 2 tones on

Just like in America, nobody yields the fire trucks.

Bloody London traffic

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