AWESOME FIRE OFFICER CARS Arriving To A Fire & Other Emergency Vehicles Arriving | BlueLightSpotters

London Fire Brigade and other emergency vehicles arriving on scene of a 20 Pump Fire in Trafalgae Square, London.

[@grahamdobson7428]

As a retired fire man from chester. What a place to get pumps to a fire 🔥. No one gives way and people on bicycle .Great job brothers 👏 👍

[@davidadderson2100]

Did a cyclist really swerve between two fire engines on an emergency run at about 00:27

[@brianbrown826]

Of course he did, because he's a cyclist and common sense and rules of the road don't apply to them.

[@ScoobsPianoCovers]

You can just see the driver put his arm up in the mirror for half a second, absolute idiot down the blind spot & across the front ( lucky they were stopping ). If your a cyclist & your reading this, NEVER EVER DO THAT....Unless you want whats left of you to go home in a body bag!!!

[@SethMaxx1994]

@@ScoobsPianoCovers I noticed that aswell

[@Biffo1262]

I can assure it isn't just cyclists. Car drivers are just as bad if not worse. There is good and bad in all but hypocrisy makes me nauseous.

[@ScoobsPianoCovers]

@@Biffo1262 Oh i hear you, i don't drive etc but yea i agree with that & even people walk out across them! i'm no hypocrite...believe me it pi**es me off when i see people doing stupid sh*t ( its like you can see they are responding so get your arse out the way or wait for them to move etc )

[@RascarDK]

So many oblivious people in the middle of a fire scene with emergency vehicles, lights and sirens everywhere. Really baffles me what people are doing. Great video!

[@jamjardj1974]

Makes you wonder how they act when nothings happening🤣

[@ludovicchiffoleau]

Thank you . I love it . 🙂.

[@arixniz]

This was such a great catch very interesting seeing all the different vehicles

[@Surrey999]

Great catches!

[@999_response]

Nice one! Lots of vehicles!! Great work !!

[@BlueLightSpotters]

Took a lot of running around Trafalgar 😂

[@1122Schiedam]

Nice mate! Was very very lucky

[@azsheri8]

God Bless all the caring hearts... the empathy angels!

[@grlscove8858]

who?

[@thuretupp6486]

30-40 uints in midle of citty in rush hower good job guys !

[@iainv4092]

Even in central London it take some time to get all the resources in place

[@stevesmith7530]

And the winner, at nine minutes and ten seconds is A301 from Islington. Meantime "Make pumps, ah sod it. Send them all"

[@robertmansfield2856]

Excellent. It always amazes me how fire appliances from far and wide are sent to incidents such as this. I once saw an appliance from Croydon attend a large fire in Barking.

[@Biffo1262]

Simply because do many appliances and stations have been cut due to 'efficiencies' as the Mayor at the time put it....one discredited politician and master liar....Boris Johnson. Think how thin on the ground fire appliances are when things like this happen and you also have spate conditions such as the drought conditions and your house catches fire! You will be waiting..... waiting......and waiting some more. Politicians look at numbers and think why do we need two fire engines in a station? Well the answer is obvious to a primary school student but politicians think in percentages i.e. 70% one pump will do so cut appliances and men by 30%. Then.....the inevitable happens and you need more than the original 100% you had so you pull I fire appliances from far and wide, robbing Peter to Pay Paul. The 'Peter' puts in a rather large bill, so the have to borrow from Mum and so it goes on.....spate conditions which require far more than your available resources mad worse by bean counters who can't see last the ends of their noses but award themselves huge pay rises and put in fairy tale expense claims. Spate conditions are here to stay as the last three years have proved but still they cut emergency service budgets. Someone has to pay for Boris' wallpaper!

[@jimpritchard4686]

That’s nothing compared to yesterday!

[@robertmansfield2856]

@@jimpritchard4686 Tell me about it. It was unbelievable and I don't think we will see anything like it again.

[@jimpritchard4686]

@@robertmansfield2856 unfortunately, I think we will. Wildfires are common in other countries, and I think we may well see them here too, in light of global warming

[@robertmansfield2856]

@@jimpritchard4686 That's true.

[@JimWhitaker]

With this number of officers in attendance, anyone would think it was a pub fire.

[@bobbob-do4ho]

🤣

[@STHFGDBY]

A beer mat went on fire.

[@southlondonemergency6543]

Lucky, I've been trying to get an LRL in months!

[@kamilpasek281]

Action Fire Trucks, and Police Cars. UK.

[@HarryEmergencyVids]

Great video and keep it up but one thing is when you get a chance between clips clean the lens

[@BlueLightSpotters]

Didn’t have time 😂

[@ConnorTan-sg6jv]

Is that the Malaysian Embassy? I saw a Malaysian Flag on the top of a building

[@Surrey999]

12:43 Brixton bullies 😂😂

[@BlueLightSpotters]

Lol

[@oliverwoodbridge3152]

How do you always catch these things happening

[@grlscove8858]

14:35 F*ing hell thats my local fire station... SUTTON in Trafalgae Square??!! Sutton is miles away.. Its almost in surrey

[@patrickwade4394]

Suprised the first police did not set up an exclusion zone to remove the pedestrians.

[@Dosedmonkey]

Yes police seem to have no initiative here.

[@geerdwyrdeman3970]

Lot of unmarked (expensive) cars with just 1 officer (with a fresh skirt hanging in the rear). What is that good for?

[@johnbratley6926]

Senior officers use their own vehicles, they get a fairly generous allowance which allows them to upscale their vehicles.

[@joaosimoes1312]

What are these lots of unmarked cars approching to this fire scene?

[@jjyt5708]

1:47 LFB: I am the meat in an emergency sandwich

[@maryphelps7381]

Everyone loves theOld Historical Buildings , , Untill they catch on fire .

[@chung6575]

8：28 fire brigade is shut down engine。so emergency vehicle don't long time idle because damage the engine。blue light shut off

[@Peter1Europe]

They have catering van ?

[@normanwallace7658]

It's Britain the guys need a cuppa tea to keep them going if their working in shifts it's practice to alternate the crews for a break whilst fighting the fire so they can return refreshed & fit to continue to relieve the team fighting it Works!!

[@johnbratley6926]

What is really scary is that LFB now only have thirteen aerial appliances including the two 200 foot vehicles paid for by the LONDON FREEMASONS. They used to have forty six. Oh shit.

[@Dosedmonkey]

46 seems like over kill, especially as the old ones were much shorter.

[@ChasingTheBlueLights]

46 is way overkill, lol

[@EnjoyFirefighting]

@@Dosedmonkey having only 13 today seems a bit odd to me as well ... Berlin has 42 Aerials although it's like one third of London's population and covers only 900km² instead of London's 1,500 km²

[@EnjoyFirefighting]

@@ChasingTheBlueLights not for such a population and area they cover ...

[@ChasingTheBlueLights]

@@EnjoyFirefighting No definitely still overkill sorry haha, LFB has nowhere near the need for anything close to 46

[@KatrinaLUFC211]

The Congestion in inner London will cost people lives, driving in that and they have their Blues&2s on and still unable to get near the scene.

[@EnjoyFirefighting]

take a look at New York City and their congestion ;)

[@commonsense3482]

Firstly the person recording criticising motorists for not going through red lights please read the Highway Code which requires a police officer to instruct you to do so to prevent you from being liable for prosecution - don’t forget there are a lot of enforcement cameras out there. In such a location I would have expected the first police unit to have blocked The Mall towards Trafalgar Square at the junction with Horseguards as this would have created the ideal parking spot for the first LFB resources seeking to set up in The Mall or Spring Gardens. It is a known fact that often the line of fire appliances will build up and this job even from a distance was clearly going to be one requiring a large presence. They could have pulled further forward if the police and LAS were not in the way allowing traffic to pass behind around the Square. With Charring Cross Police Station a short stroll away I was surprised that larger numbers of officers were not been deployed quicker to assist with road closures and diversions and that better use of the Met Police road closed and traffic arrow signs was not initiated earlier. It was also clear that there would need to be a closure of Cockspur St and most likely Pall Mall East from an early stage. A closure of this and no doubt better communications to responding units a designated RVP could have been declared for the officers and support unit RVP which could have freed space nearer the scene - could the cars not have parked on the island with the Monument to King Charles I allowing those appliances to be nearer the scene where their equipment would be more likely needed? Likewise I don’t understand why LAS set up on The Mall when Cockspur Street would have allowed easier access and egress reducing the likely conflict of fire hoses everywhere. This is not a criticism of the services on scene but merely a pointing out that this presents opportunities for reflective learning about scene set up and management that could be useful in dealing with future incidents. I have over the years seen many similar issues with other incidents but each one should have a debrief what went well, what could we improve? Could we have managed traffic better around the incident to reduce congestion which could delay other resources that are attending? We will never be perfect but we can always improve if we look at history/ past events and learn from them.

[@johnbell5767]

Water fairies at their best 😂

[@simonpilk]

The utter ignorance on behalf of so many people here who do not get out of the way of emergency vehicles is just astounding and as for that cyclist who weaver between two emergency vehicles. Words fail me and so many of these incredibly stupid people need heavy fines to teach them a lesson. If you see a vehicle on blues and twos get the F out of the way. It could one day be you who needs the emergency services.

[@JL-rx6hl]

why so many expensive cars for the "fire officers" or is just the LFB way of giving out company cars rather than having more engines??

[@EnjoyFirefighting]

BMW, Mercedes etc are nothing out of the ordinary here, they aren't necessarily concidered as luxury car. Thus many chiefs will have one as their private car which they bought themselves; Also many marked emergency vehicles are based on e.g. BMW

[@JimWhitaker]

6:20 Drew the short straw and got a BMW i3. Better not get sent very far or very fast!

[@James-ke9sv]

They aint to bad, Easily get 120mils of range, which for around london isnt bad

[@EnjoyFirefighting]

more than sufficient for the city; No need to get a sporty powerful car there

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[@wasntme20]

What’s the saying I don’t care a f about what’s going on their it’s not affecting me so why should I worry typical human attitude they only care when it’s them it affects then they criticise everyone else

[@Dosedmonkey]

Certaintly a London attitude

[@bostonrailfan2427]

the longtime fire buff in me is screaming “TRAFFIC CONTROL!!!!” over the amount of traffic flowing through the scene. sorry if it’s being the dumb Yank, i know it’s a hugely important intersection in London but damn that’d never happen in the US in any city i’ve ever been to…traffic issues elsewhere or not you can’t have traffic flowing like that through an active scene especially with pumpers needing hydrants and support apparatus needing access and parking…

[@stevesmith7530]

The issue is not simply shutting down that intersection, which is a very busy and important one, but given the layout of London streets, that soon backs up traffic in a huge area which does more to hamper response. It is not even as simple as responders being able to drive the wrong side of what you may think of being potentially empty streets, as they will not be so empty as traffic uses alternate ways round the block to rejoin their original route at the earliest possible opportunity. I speak as someone who does drive response in the city on occasion, and it does not take much at all to really mess up traffic flow. Even a broken down bus can create standing traffic over a huge area.

[@bostonrailfan2427]

@@stevesmith7530 so…put lives in danger doesn’t matter because it’s an inconvenience to people, gotcha.

[@thomasnichol5127]

@@bostonrailfan2427 Did you read what the guy said? Resources can't get to the scene if the surrounding roads are gridlocked. Traffic control is a fine art. Sometimes just shutting everything does more harm than good.

[@EnjoyFirefighting]

@@bostonrailfan2427 it would as well put lives in danger if you get entirely gridlocked traffic in not only a small borough but an entire area of the city, slowing down emergency vehicles both heading to this scene and also to other incidents or hospitals. They have literally no chance to get through once traffic clogs the area. I've seen that kind of issue both in the Bavarian state capital of Munich, where the one-sided shutdown of a highway due to an accident caused a traffic collapse in half of the city area, and I also saw it in New York City where backed up traffic had an intense impact onto response times of emergency vehicles, taking longer to only get from one Avenue to the next Avenue than it takes us to go all the way from the station to the scene miles away.

[@leenisp8nis909]

instead of calling names at the drivers you are aware you cannot drive through a red light

[@EnjoyFirefighting]

only in the UK, for some odd reason no-one outside the UK will be able to understand

[@paulwright6386]

You can, but only when ordered to do so by a Police officer.

[@onionpoo]

Bull horn , good . Get out the way you selfish commuters