American Reacts to Some of The BIGGEST German Emergency Vehicles...

[@flashover911intern]

Thank you for reacting to our Video at 2:20, we really appreciate it! 🚒 This truck is the highest one in service with a public fire department in Germany at the moment. Greetings from Germany! ☺️

[@Uli_Krosse]

Very impressive machine, this one. / Sehr beeindruckendes Gerät, das Teil.

[@IWrocker]

It sure is an awesome machine 🎉 Great to hear from You! Keep up the good work 😎

[@yskdereade123]

90m ~ 295ft

[@MrHeavy92]

@@IWrocker You are looking at a 12,5m (41ft) long, 4m (13ft) high und 40 metric ton heavy arial rescue platform with a telescopic boom reaching up to 70m (230ft) at full vertical extension. A hydaulically driven pump with an output of up to 4000ltr (1056 gal) per minute is integrated into the chassis

[@t-auru-s]

Für was wird er (das Feuerwehrfahrzeug) eigentlich benutzt?

[@ivovanzon164]

First and last are specialized vehicles for chemical plant fires. The jet engine units are a more civilized version of the tank-with-jet-engines used in Kuwait in 1992

[@karstenbursak8083]

The "Hurricane" A MIG-21 jet turbine on an russian T-55 chassis

[@madyottoyotto3055]

A Cram mounted on a truck with hydraulic stabilisation legs more like

[@martinbuddenberg1025]

these are the sickest vehicles i know @@karstenbursak8083 😁

[@MoritzSchmidt-mt4vo]

It is used to get chemicals out of the air they came to the day of the open door of the Fire brigade because it is in my city

[@peterm.2385]

The first convoy is from Bayer (the company which bought Monsanto) in Leverkusen

[@Kroyer102]

The first convoy is a special kind of firefighters (Werkfeurwehr written on their vehicles), which basically serve a specific company. They belong to pharmaceutical giant Bayer, you can see the title Chempark on the sides of the vehicles, which is the name of their giant chemical plant. These kind of firefighters and their equipment would be specialized for fires and dangers they could encounter. As you can imagine, fires in a giant chemical plant full of dangerous chemicals could be catastrophic compared to regular household fires, that's why there's so many of them with big specialized equipment. The 90m mast fire truck has RWE logo, which is a giant utility/energy company, so they have special equipment for fires in power plants. Lastly the fire truck with jet turbines is used at airports. Crashed airplanes with leaking fuel can be hard to put out. The last showcase of vehicles also belong to a special firefighting service of an another chemical company called Evonik, you can see Evonik on all of the vehicles.

[@tobiasmuth2372]

So far your explanations are correct! However, fire engines with turbines are not used in aircraft fires. These vehicles in the clip belong to the chemical company “Evonik”. This type of vehicle (turbo extinguisher/aerosol extinguisher) is available in many chemical companies (large plants - BASF Ludwigshafen, Chempark Leverkusen (Bayer) and Chempark Marl (Evonik) for the suppression of gases, also for cooling, ventilation (tunnels - would be safe for fire departments like in Switzerland suitable vehicle - many tunnels) and major fires (mainly in the chemical industry). “Mr. “Google” could not find any airport fire brigade with such vehicles in Germany.

[@Kroyer102]

@@tobiasmuth2372 Yes you're right, I didn't check the original video. In this video I just heard in the background Einsatz Flughafen, so I thought the narrator said one of the applications was at airports.

[@tobiasmuth2372]

@@Kroyer102 You´re not the only one...with this missunderstand..

[@Keksemann666]

Ive seen werksfeuwrwehren at some "normal fires" as well so they don't work for just one company but belong to them

[@Tiger313NL]

@@Keksemann666 I've seen an airport crash tender help extinguish a fire at a car recycling company/scrap heap. However, if there's a fire at the airport at the same time, they'll prioritize that one. I've seen a steel plant fire truck help when a house was on fire. Had there been a fire at the steel plant, they would not have helped with the house. That's how it works.

[@juliensenft8083]

I work for the company that manufactures those aerial platforms at 2:22 and 3:58. The first one goes up to 70m high, it is brand new and was delivered this year. The second one is 90m, pretty common in wind turbine maintenance. And it actually doesn't move at this altitude, even with 45km/h wind it can take at it's maximum. The company is Bronto Skylift and we have the record for the highest truck mounted aerial platform in the world at 112m.

[@offtopp1277]

The one in Toronto?

[@juliensenft8083]

​@@offtopp1277Is there one in Toronto? Idk

[@speeedyke1]

Yup there is 1 in Belgium for Maes ekektro high reachworkers i put the KZbin in a comment

[@kamitoshiro5545]

The Convoi and the Jetengine truck all belong to factory firebrigades (Werksfeuerwehr). So they fight industrial fires, like in oil refineries or anything with toxic/explosive/highly flammable stuff The Jetengine is used to hold down fires, chemicals or toxic gases especially over wide areas. It can also spray other stuff like foam to suffocate a fire

[@tobiwillichnet6659]

They are also used (not in this example) to extinquish fires in tunnels or in the woods. Main advantage is that you don't have to enter dangerous areas. There are also some variants mounted on old tanks.

[@markus.schiefer]

8k litres per minute is just crazy.

[@ChriDDel]

"big wind" was used to extinguish oil fires in Kuwait. A tank with 2 Mig jet engines.

[@tobiwillichnet6659]

@@ChriDDel they used some old, I think it was T-55 or something like that, with jet engines in Brandenburg to fight wildfires as there is still ammo and mines in the woods wo are likely to explode during a fire. So the firefighters can stay save.

[@skodass1]

2:55 pretty sure its a Scania 90m is roughly 300 feet 11:00 at the start of the clip he says its designed for stuff like chemical fires. And its designed to not only spray water but it even has a tank reserved for foam so it can spread an aerosolized foam/water mixture. Its also mentioned that the turbines runs off normal gas but can also be powered by other fuel sources such as NLG etc.

[@speeedyke1]

there are in belgium a few that even goes higher i v worked in a company who has 2 off them 114m 1 fire fighter and an normal one for jobs where highg reach is needed like windmils .. powerline maintanance.... kzbin.info/www/bejne/m6iypZyOZqeIrNU

[@jochendamm]

the turbine shoots 8,000 liters or 2,113 U.S. gallons per minute (35 gallons per second).

[@michaelries1328]

98.42 yards = 90 Meter

[@Hanseat_1887]

Its a Scania and "only" 70 m high

[@FlockeGaming]

@@Hanseat_1887 TM90 = Teleskopmast 90m. max high 90m max operation high 70m - 80m

[@BlaulichtRatingen]

Thanks for reaction to our Video (the 1st one at 0:37)! :D This happened after a show day from the Currenta plant fire brigade at the Chempark Leverkusen where they drove back onto the factory premises. Greetings from Germany :)

[@Z0RDR4CK]

Actually so funny to see a video 'made' in USA with footage from Germany of an area very familiar to me,... because I live almost nextdoor to the Chempark Leverkusen. Greetings from Cologne, Germany ~2,5km away from the spot they made the turn.

[@ratman_flo7496]

In Germany the Vehicles of the PUBLIC (not privat like for Companies) are standardized for the most Things. There are different Class with different Functions, in a Category it has standardized Utilities at standardized Places in the Vehicle. There is a Rule how much HP the Engine has to have as Minimum, the Colors are standardized to 2 Red-Tones as Basic (RAL 3024 & RAL 3000 if i remeber right) and NOBODY ELSE is allowed to paint a privat Car in that Color, it is even standardized what is written on at what Places and how big the Letters have to be! If you see "Werkfeuerwehr" it is the Fire-Department of a Company. At the Beginning of your Video it said "Werkfeuerwehr", "Chem-Park" and the Numberplates started with "LEV", so i guess those are the Firetrucks of the Pharma-Company Bayer-Leverkusen that are specialized to the Requirments you need for chemical Industry. For that Vehicle with the Jet-Engines Wikipedia Germany says: "Fire fighting turbines are primarily used in the chemical industry and refineries, tunnels and subway shafts, airports and recycling plants." I have see a Pair of Jet-Engines mounted on a Tank (!!!) as Prototype fighting against Tunnel-Fires.

[@EnjoyFirefighting]

First convoy was an industrial FD heading back from a PR event where they invited filmers. The 90 meter platform is the tallest one in Germany; Used at an industrial FD as well. 90m equals 300 ft in height The one from Hamburg is the tallest one at a municipal FD in the country. The 70 m equals 230 ft

[@smiechuwarte-qt8pn]

The largest fire trucks are those for extinguishing industrial fires . A normal fire truck has 2.5 tons of water and fire trucks for industrial fires have 10 tons of water.The largest are fire trucks used at airports. Rosenbauer Panther rescue and fire-fighting vehicle with side number 6, type 8x8 GCBA 18/110. it's a real monster. Although it weighs over 50 tons, two 725 HP engines allow it to reach a speed of 135 km/h and accelerate to 80 km/h in 22 seconds. The vehicle is equipped with a self-defense system - it can enter a pool of burning fuel without any threat to firefighters. This car has two water tanks with a capacity of 18,000 liters and a foam concentrate with a capacity of 2,100 liters. The capacity of the car pump is 11,000 l/min and the capacity of the main monitor is 9,000 l/min with a range of 100 m. The capacity of the bumper monitor is 3,600 l/min.

[@GorillaGongo]

WOW!

[@djenn30]

I'm German and I know a lot about emegency vehicles. Some in this video are only used for industry fires like the one with the turbines. The 90 meter "Teleskopmast" (translation: telescopic mast) is a special vehicle for very tall industry buildings. I think it is the only one that tall in Germany. Normally there are 30m tall "Drehleitern" (translation: turnable ladders - a truck with a extendable 30m long ladder with a basket at the end. Used to rescue people (or cats) from buildings or trees even if they are not so tall. It's also used to pump water to that height to extinguish fires from above). The standard fire engines are "Hilfsleistungslöschgruppenfahrzeuge" (transation: fire engine with equipment for technical rescue; I know we Germanns have lots of very compilcated long words). They can usually carry up to 9 firemen, 4-6 are usually on board, and contain 2000l of water and a pump with all the firefighting equipment. These trucks are a lot smaller than in the US, only about 7-10 meters long. I this video you saw only special vehicles used from industry fire stations. And all vehicles that are allowed to drive the puplic roads in Germany have to weigh less than 40 tons. The are a few exeptions but not in this video. Maybe the 90m one was a bit heavier.

[@Z0RDR4CK]

However, it is becoming more and more common for factory fire brigades or airport fire brigades to go out on external missions, as many commercial areas and smaller industrial parks do not have their own fire brigade. Then it really doesn't matter how much these things weigh, if they are requested, they will be deployed outside of their original locations - you can often see them responding to accidents on the highway. The only exception is bridges with weight restrictions, which for most (and bigger) bridges are between 35t and 55t so that they are also able to allow tanks crossing.

[@solidsteel3634]

If I understand correctly, the turbine car is used to cool fires and knock down chemical clouds.

[@carstenruck8540]

For example. Because of the exhaust flow of the engines the water can be transpoted much more far away then a normal nozzle can and the water drops get way smaller = way bigger suface = better cooling capacity. First one was invented 25 years ago for BASF Ludwigshafen, worlds biggest chemical plant. They have 2 of them. BASF Ludwigshafen Emergency Response has 3 Stations, about 180 firefighters in 2 shifts and protects an area of approx 4 square miles and 35000 employes plus up to 10000 contractors.

[@plog-online]

ITS right, chemicals and airports.

[@piwo7628]

@@carstenruck8540 Sadly, that is not correct. The first tests for this took place in 1980 at the Fire Brigade Institute in Heyrothsberge near Magdeburg. The exhaust fire fighting vehicle was presented to the public for the first time in 1984 at the CTIF Conference in Dresden. In East Germany there was another one before 1990 at a factory fire department in Lusatia. So it was not invented for BASF, but is much older.

[@Chrischi3TutorialLPs]

That first clip is probably an industrial fire. The vehicles are marked as Werkfeuerwehr Chempark. Now, you need to know here that, unlike in the US, in Germany, fire brigades are generally volunteer only. A few big cities have their own professional fire brigades, but the vast majority are volunteers. Now, these on the other hand are a third category, a private fire brigade owned by a company, presumably the one running the Chempark. These are common if you have big industrial sites. They're often also professionals, though, if anyone at the company is a volunteer firefighter, they too might be part of the brigade. Afterall, when fighting fires, there is no such thing as too much personnel, or at least, you generally want more rather than less.

[@norrinradd2364]

11:15 The turbine turns the water into an aerosol. The heat exchange between the water aerosol and the flames is maximized by the now large surface area of the much smaller water droplets. In this way, the cooling effect is very high and the fire is extinguished very quickly due to this loss of energy. This is very useful for burning airplanes, overheated chemical reactors, puddles of burning liquids, deflagrations of all kinds of dusts and, as you said, burning forests.

[@Keksemann666]

Its actually not used for airplanes, airplanes are usually extinguished with foam because its just taking away the oxygen and thats enough. The vehicle in question is great for self oxygenating substance that burn even inside foam.

[@mathewcherrystone9479]

Water is also a very good solvent, so if you have toxic clouds or dust coming from a fire or even just from a leak in piping the water will at least ensure, that all the contamination stays on site and does not spread over the entire area, which is very important in densly populated germany.

[@theincrediblefox]

07:09 Those are called cooling towers. Many power plants, not just nuclear ones have them. Power plants usually work by heating up water to steam and running that steam through a turbine wich creates electricity. Those cooling towers are there to condense the steam back into water so it can be cycled back through the system. Hope that helps. :)

[@a14_eagle]

Not to mention that (to my knowledge at least), Germany does not have any running Nuclear power plants anymore

[@theincrediblefox]

@@a14_eagle Correct. The last three reactors where shut down in April of last year.

[@NocnaGlizda]

@@a14_eagleFor some reason. We don't even have one such power plant and they are shutting down all of them. It's a great source of energy if everything is managed according to regulations.

[@Itsjustme-Justme]

the 1st clip is Werkfeuerwehr (factory fire brigade) Chempark Leverkusen. They belong to one of Germany's biggest chemical industry plants. the 2nd is Berufsfeuerwehr Hamburg. Professional fire brigades of large cities usually have heavier equipment than the volunteer brigades. Usually, big cities have professional volunteer fire brigades while smaller towns usually only have volunteers. the 3rd is Werkfeuerwehr RWE Neurath. They belong to a large, coal-fired power station. 90 meters is 295 feet. Enough for reaching at least 25 stories high. The fat, round tower is a condensation tower, often simply called cooling tower. the 4th in Werkfeuerwehr Evonik Rheinfelden, another huge chemical industry plant. The turbine truck is designed to fight even the most extreme chemical, gas and oil fires. Afaik the use of jet engines to blow out extreme fires is a French invention. It was famously used in Kuweit 1991 to stop burning oil wells.

[@piwo7628]

Sadly, that is not correct. The first tests for this took place in 1980 at the fire brigade institute in Heyrothsberge near Magdeburg. The exhaust fire fighting vehicle was presented to the public for the first time in 1984 at the CTIF conference in Dresden. In East Germany there was another one before 1990 at a factory fire department in Lusatia. So it was not invented for BASF, but is much older.

[@RCBirds]

Great video. Some questions answered: - the trucks in column are private company trucks for special jobs. - Hamburg, 40 tons, Scania. Community fire departmens have some specialised cars, too. Depending on tadks and budget. - 19 meters, almost 60 ft. - this jet system was used after the first Irac war. And with russian plane turbines. They had no other use after the downfall of the GDR. The system here can work around an hour with tge onboard tank. But you can couple it to a hydrant and use it as long you want to. - Nissan Pick-Up (no joke), King Cab with 1 and ahalf cabin or Navara in the luxury version.

[@petebeatminister]

Those are mainly company run fire brigades, that huge companies maintain. You can tell that they have deeper pocket than the publicly funded city fire brigades. Also they tend to operate very purpose focused vehicles, like the water curtain engine, or the truck with the 90m (300ft) platform. That is operated by RWE, a mega big electricity company in German. Those towers you asked about are water cooling towers of power plants. Nuclear or other. All nuclear power plant in Germany are now taken offline, but still exist of course.

[@ThomasKnip]

The truck at 7:34 with the jet engines is specialized for fires at chemical plants or airports. Where you have to cover a large area quickly. The water is for demonstration. In case of a fire with chemical agents they would use specialized extinguishing foam. The turret can be mored 180 degrees horizontally , and 45 degress vertically. It cam pump 8,000 liters per minute (Just some German tanslations on the fly ^^)

[@Torron79]

I can tell 90m ARE pretty high when you´re just in that little basket. I had a bungee jump once from 100m and yeah, this was frightening. Kudos to everyone working in that height!

[@Erimioa]

The turbin one is called TULF (TUrbinenLöschFahrzeug = turbin extinguish vehicle). It is a class of ALFs (AerosolLöschFahrzeuge = Aerosol extinguish vehicles) and are for big industrial fires or gas leakages. There are some beautiful looking ones, like the "AGLF Hurricane", "ALF Big Wind" or the "Caterpillar Jtaltractor - Pozhtechnika". They are rare, only on some few industry havy areas. According to Wikipedia only 9 in germany. Problem is the high maintaining cost, lack of usecases (big fires in a wide open area and high water support) and it needs specialiced extra fire truck or multiple regular fire trucks to pump all the water it needs to it. But IF something happend (where you would use one of them) they are worth it.

[@Herrolas]

11:00 these machines creating a kind of mist to collect particles (like gases) out of the air.

[@biloaffe]

11:10 Aerosol fire engines: areas of application for rapid and massive firefighting in large fires - Firefighting on chemical plants (especially petrochemical plants) - Precipitation of toxic gases and vapors - Cooling objects at risk of fire - Ventilation of tunnels

[@rapha35344]

11:30 The Truck is used by the "Werkfeuerwehr" Which is a company Firefighting (Private) Its most likely for some chemical company or something like that.

[@DJone4one]

1:04 That's a platoon from the Chempark plant fire brigade The Word: WERKSFEUERWEHR means, that is the Factory Fire fighter brigade by a big company with her own infrastructure (how a little city). This can often be seen at companies in the energy sector, or in the chemical industry, at aircraft manufacturers, at large shipbuilders or car manufacturers, depending on the size of the site where work is carried out.

[@helloweener2007]

The firecars were from factory firebrigades. Big companies who produce flameable materials, chemicals, fuel, and so on have their own prefessional firebrigade. Refineries, companies like BASF or Bayer, nuclear plants we had and so on. The jet turbine is for getting rid of gases. The high pressure foam is for -materials you can't extinguish with water- fires on which liquid water is not effective.

[@windhelmguard5295]

foam is not for materials that you can't extinguish with water, which should be obvious because the foam is mostly water too. when appropriate foam IS more efficient than water (as in you get more surface area and thus more cooling out of a smaller water source), but generally if plain ass water isn't going to work, neither will the foam. one more thing you can do is mix in the foaming agent without using the foam nozzle, this reduces the surface tension of the water, which allows it to soak into stuff more easily, very useful in stuff like barn fires, where you need the water to get into the bottom of a hay pile or something. if you need to extinguish something you can't do with water, you want to use CO₂ or powder depending on what it is, dry sand cal also do the job in many cases, but you need to make sure the sand is dry, especially when you're dealing with metal fires.

[@berndbrotify]

@@windhelmguard5295You can't put out burning petrol with water, but it's easily extinguished with foam. That's because petrol is lighter than water and will just float atop, whereas foam is lighter than petrol so it will cover the fire. The same thing is true for many fluids that are lighter than water, that you might find in a chemical plant. CO2 is not really helpful outside, as it dissipates too quickly to have any effect. And powder might be ineffective as well for large areas of burning fluid: Because it doesn't cool down the fluid, you'll have to cover the whole area with a powder cloud for a significant amount of time, until the temperature drops below the ignition point, or the whole thing will just re-ignite as soon as the powder settles.

[@helloweener2007]

@@windhelmguard5295 Yes, you are right. My fault because I gave no further explanation what I meant. And I should not have used the word "can't" which gave the wrong idea about what I have meant. I had liquids or gases in mind that cover a bigger area or spill out of an pipe. Yes, stuff that you can't extinguish with water because it reacts with the oxygen, the foam will also not work. Thanks for the correction.

[@windhelmguard5295]

@@berndbrotify you don't put anything that has water in it on burning liquids, or solids that melt when they burn for that matter. For burning liquids you use dry foam that does not have water in it.

[@axelk4921]

In Germany we even have tanks and robots used in forest fires. The tanks are old Bundeswehr Marder1 A3 and old NVA T-55, converted and painted in fire department red, one even with jet engines as far as I know which are usually rented from the "contract company" "DIBUKA" for large fires that are difficult to reach

[@Keksemann666]

From what i know, more and more of the tanks are being ordered, especially around Forrests with old munitions in the ground.

[@AHVENAN]

Ian - the one with the double front steering axles and a steering axle in the back in the second clip was definately a Scania, that front-end is iconic!

[@zerodarkthirty7171]

90 meters is 295 ft tall thats really really tall

[@almerindaromeira8352]

2:35 the vehicle is brand new. It went into service one or two weeks ago

[@adatek7399]

Also, this is station 32 in Hamburg, and my Dad is the operator for the Crane you can see when IWrocker points out the two Scanias. I have many great memories of that station.

[@helloweener2007]

In freedom units: 90m is the length of 92 AR-15. Or the lenght of an American Football field. 100 yards = 91.44 meters 10m = 10.94 yd

[@IWrocker]

Haha cool 😂🎉

[@Itsjustme-Justme]

How many Ariana Grandes is that?

[@VanezBane]

@@Itsjustme-Justme 58 Ariana Grandes or 50 Taylor Swifts

[@Bogey-4ever]

@@Itsjustme-Justme Ariana Grande seems to be 1,53 M so thats 58,8 Ariana Grandes (90/1,53)! Metric is easy, believe me 😉

[@gtvgranberg]

@@Bogey-4ever I do all my work in Swift units!

[@thomasjendestrom4240]

3:00 The fire engine from Hamburg is from Scania.

[@enlightendbel]

For a quick approximate conversion to feet from meters, just do times 3 and then add 10%. 90*3 is 270 + 27 and you get 297 feet. (which is just 1 and a bit feet of the exact result) Even with larger numbers it remains relatively easy as you don't need to be precise since you're just trying to visualize the distance, not launch space shuttles. 3492 meters is about 10500, add 10%, so about 11550 feet, etc, it's 100 feet off, but close enough to get a measure of the the distance.

[@FalcoGer]

@4:35 There is no such thing as nuclear towers. The things you saw are cooling towers, or condensation towers. They are used to cool down the secondary loop in thermal power plants when other heat sinks (such as rivers or lakes) are not available. They can be part of any thermal power plant. Nuclear reactors are housed in buildings that are much smaller, usually they are cylindrical with a dome on top. @11:00 they said they use it to wash out dangerous chemicals and gases from industrial accidents and the like and also to cool down industrial equipment like chemical tanks and such.

[@browdiedeluxe4592]

Hey. I'm German. These trucks are from the "Werksfeuerwehr" or in English "factory fire department". It is responsible for protecting factories, businesses and industrial centers. It is almost only used for operations on industrial sites. Only in rare cases are they alerted to operations that have nothing to do with the factory.

[@dirkf.1250]

The Merck plant fire department in Darmstadt (Germany) had a telescopic mast with a working height of 110 m. Its stabilizers was much larger than the one shown here on the 90 m mast. One would have to see if it still exists.

[@Firehunter112]

I really thought some of that are Fake but nope. I live in Germany and also are member of a volunteer fire Department and ive never Seen so Big fire engines. But as soon as i saw WF for Werkfeuerwehr or factory fire Brigade i realized how this can happen- they arent federal fire brigades. They are running by some big company- like the next factory fire Brigade near me is run by Nordwest Oelletung- an Oil company

[@winterschmied4583]

These big "chimneys" actually are cooling towers. The hot water is sprayed into sort of a Trickle grate. Cold air is led into the tower from openings in the bottom and cools down the water that is collected in a basin under the tower and used then for cooling again. The white "smoke" simply is moist hot air that condense in the cooler surrounding air. Yes, it's the same thing used in nuclear plants but this plant is, I think, a power plant fired with natural gas, because here in Germany all nuclear plants are shut down.

[@habi0187]

It is more likely to be coal fired units. They don't have chimneys anymore the exhaust gas after the electro static filters and the desulfurization is led through the cooling towers in order to increase the draft there for a better cooling efficiency. Gas fired units are more combined cycle units and they look completely different. The pictures looked a bit like "Schwarze Pumpe or Boxberg" but I am not sure about it.

[@Mafed_Graystone]

Little tip to calculate Meters in Feet: 3ft = 0.91m, so if you want to calculate it roughly, take the meters x 3 90m -> x3 -> ~270ft Works better for shorter distances, because it's actually 295ft

[@apveening]

That 3 ft is also one yard, so 90 meters is about 100 yards.

[@Guenther614]

Im from Germany and the one with the jet engines is used for chemical fires and air ports

[@steffenstelldinger9999]

The vehicle with the engines is used to extinguish large industrial fires and at airports. A fire basically requires 3 components: a fuel, oxygen, and the required ignition temperature. If you eliminate one of these components, the fire will go out. The vehicle can generate a very fine mist of water that can effectively supercool the fire site. When foam agent is added, the (air) oxygen is separated from the fuel.

[@mariosgreek9707]

Hi Ian, right out of the block..first scene is the "Werksfeuerwehr" of the Chempark in Leverkusen. It's where I work, lol. Multiple Companies in this Chempark, most know Bayer, Coventry and Lanxess. Werksfeuerwehr translates to Plant-Fire Department. So, yes it's a company owned Fire Department.

[@Andre-Therr-Maitz-EU-ru]

The joke is that I, as a German, find the US Firefighter Cars mega cool! Well, that's just the way it is!! Greetings to the States! Andy

[@meinnaame6988]

Ja, die Kirschen in Nachbars Garten... (The grass is always greener...)

[@Andre-Therr-Maitz-EU-ru]

@meinnaame6988 Ganz genau, Aber die meisten Feuerwehr Fahrzeuge sind aber auch cool in den USA und die Kirschen schmecken besser! 👍👍👍

[@corjp]

The coneshape towers in 7.10 are cooling towers for cooling down the water that was heated in the powerplant... To cool the water down it is sent through a pipe system that runs around the base of the coneshaped tower. The steam is what you see coming from the top the water spirals through pipes back to the cooling system. ( This info was told to me by a guide in a simmelar set up that was out of commission.)

[@vast001]

The second segment was a firetruck from Hamburg. The 90m pull out truck is from energy company RWE and are used for attacking fires in the turbines of the windmills. The last segment are company firetrucks of the company Evonik, a chemical producer. Most chemical producers in Europe have there own fire brigade for the first defense and can get assistence from the firebrigades from the town and surrounding towns.

[@leoschulpen6423]

Most firetrucks are so-called Tanktrucks . To handle the weight of the water inside the truck there are more axes . Steering rear-axes improve the ability of making sharp turns . The high mast is used for industrial purposes . It provides the ability of a fire canon at height . the turbine trucks is used as a plant fire truck in case of a ammonia gas outburst . Custom made .

[@timderks5960]

Another big specialty vehicle you might like, although it's a short video: "Gloednieuw schuimblusvoertuig met blusarm 24-2564 bedrijfsbrandweer Chemelot met 'spoed'". It's a foam truck with a pretty massive arm on it. 5 axles, three steering, but this one is Dutch. "Werkfeuerwehr" means something like "company fire department" btw, so they're usually specialized for the company/companies in the area. In Germany, those tend to be denoted by the addition of some blue markings like you noticed.

[@Marmagon]

When i see those Leverkusen trucks from the Bayer Chempark i instantly still remember when part of the Bayer Chempark blew up a few years ago. The whole city was shaking from the explosion. It was a miracle that they managed to stop follow up explosions. It was super close from going all up in flames.

[@Legend-j7c4d]

Those Units you saw first, with the Blue stripes, are from a refinery and used for fires in the refinery area

[@FredrikThyr]

The towers at power plants are called cooling towers. Nuclear power plants and other power plants that generate steam use the cooling towers for more power from turbines and generators. The Fog turbines are used to cool large fires or adjacent areas that need protection. It uses much less water, perhaps 10%, than spraying for example with a fire hose, for the same effect.

[@weeardguy]

6:44: they can sway A LOT. Even experienced operators say that they do not really get used to it and everytime get a weird feeling in their stomach when it sways a few tenths of centimeters (let's say a foot). But don't let the height alone fool you: it usually is more about the maximum distance these things can reach out, as 90 meters (about 270 feet) is nice, but it's useless if you can only go straight up. But even reaching out from the center of the turntable the mast is mounted on can get to impressive distances. There's a video from a Dutch rental company that has a bucket-crane for rent that can go up 64 meters (about 190 feet) but can reach something like 25 meters outwards and still hold 3 people and tools in the platform at the end of the boom. At some point, the guy demonstrating the thing points the camera along the boom, which shows mad bending under the weight.

[@MiraYolven89]

11:00 This vehicle is manufactured for tunnel fires and in Germany the vehicles are mainly used by Rosenbauer.

[@Gilder-von-Schattenkreuz]

The 90m Platform is for Emergency use on Industrial Buildings and other very High Buildings. Also. The Chimneys in the Back are "Cooling Towers" of a German Coal Power Plant.

[@DragoonDante]

The one with the Turbines is for large area fires that can happen on airpores and such. I think it can also be used for tunnel fires to push back the flames from two sides and drown it.

[@samuelbhend2521]

>>> Steered axles in the rear help with tight corners on narrow european roads, but also extend the lifespan of the tires considerably by preventing them from rubbing sideways on the road when going around curves >>> 90m is a littlebit over 295ft

[@ttx888]

The Truck at 02:52 is a Scania XT (Scania P500 B10X4*6NA) The vehicle weighs approx. 36 tons (36000 kg) for US 79366 lb. The telescopic mast can be extended to a height of 70 meters (For US 229.6588 ft.). 90 Meters are 295.2756 ft. This vehicle at minute 08:06 is used for firefighting in the event of chemical accidents. It can also be used for fires in tunnels and on Airports too. The vehicle at 12:31 is a command vehicle of the Evonik plant fire department (Evonik is a large chemical company).

[@Moribax85]

To give you a reference about the 90 meters: using standard us floor height of 7.5 feet, that thing would reach midway between the 39th and the 40th floor.

[@ron9320]

The pickup at 13:06 is workshop on wheels for fire equipment maintenance work in the chemical plant of EVONIK in Rheinfelden

[@Psycho80m]

Hi, the Truck at 3:40 called TMF 70 (Teleskopmastfahrzeug 70 Meter(230 feet)). It based on Scania P500B and cost rundabout 1,9 Million Euros

[@RotschaYoung]

11:28 This truck is intended for very large industrial / chemical plants but is also stationed at airports in Germany

[@impious72]

My father was a firefighter at the Hamburg Bilstedt fire department. They had the 53m version until it went to the nearby "Technik and Umwelt Wache". That is a department specialised for catastrophes. I had the the chance to go up, when my dad asked me, but i didnt have the balls for that. But the normal ladder was okay at 20m. It could reach 36m. The first video part shows the arrival of the new system at the Technik und Umwelt Wache. It reaches over 70m and is the tallest official vehicle of german firebrigades.

[@clubvillain]

5:38 for clarification, 90 metres is 295 feet in imperial.

[@tonyalbertsson919]

The 5-axle truck 3min in is a Scania, you can easily tell which brand it is by looking at the side mirrors. Scania always has the small wide-angle mirror up. Volvo always has it underneath. We don't look at MAN, MB etc ;)

[@stevehartley7504]

Turbines Wide spray for cooling and removal of Oxygenation of combutible material You can spray over burning doorway and people can actually walk out, planes etc direct into windows etc floor 2 and 3

[@Tom-Lahaye]

Some cool fire trucks I didn't know. The concrete towers with smoke above them are cooling towers. At a height some 10-20ft above the bottom warm cooling water coming from the plant is dispersed in tiny droplets via many pipes and nozzles in the base of the tower. The tower acts as a chimney where the heat of the water creates an updraft of air, and in this updraft the water partially evaporates. This evaporation needs heat energy so the remaining water is cooled down and collected at the bottom of the tower. Fresh water is constantly taken in to replace the evaporated water, but much less water is needed because most of the water recirculates from the cooling towers. I believe this power plant from RWE in Germany uses lignite (brown coal) to produce electricity. That skylift is crazy high, I'm used to work with cherry pickers and I'm happy with heights of 10-15m or 33-47ft but 90m or 300ft is something else. The truck with the jet turbines is used for large industrial fires like chemical plants, the cooling effect of the atomised water is much greater than from a massive stream I see the American fire brigades use so often. It would work great against wildfires as well.

[@PlaywithJunk]

They used a similar waterjet thing in the Iraq war to extinguish burning oil wells. They took a russian tank and attached two MIG turbines instead of the turret. They called it Big Wind 🙂

[@crunchyscorpio9186]

The jet engine system is used for huge fires in chemical parks and stuff, but I learned about them when the firefighters that are stationed by the Elbtunnel Hamburg acquired one such system. The tunnel is 2+ km long under the river Elbe and fire security is serious business. It was bought sometime after the horrific fire in the Mont-blanc tunnel, look it up if you want to know why the firefighters deemed it to be a necessary tool.

[@astra1360]

I love your reactions as your always so upbeat and cheerful! Keep it up, you have awesome energy!

[@heinzandress8505]

The turbine fire truck, is mostly there to put out fires in chemical, or petrol plants. 1) they blow away toxic fumes for the attack group and overspray the area with a cooling water shower, taking away the extrem heat and extinguish the burning parts, witch can be extinguished by water. Some chemicals and oils can not be put out by water. Therefore a special foam and absorbent substrates would be used.

[@stanislemovsky5590]

The best thing about the jet engine fire truck is that the turbines don't just run on kerosene, but also on other gasolines and even petroleum.

[@Brickbuilder100]

I‘m from Germany and it‘s really funny to see your reaction. They are Trucks which are only at Airports. I would enjoy it when you react to an other German Videos. :)

[@mega_boom]

11:12 it‘s for chemical fires, tunnels, cooling endangered areas, airplanes and area fires

[@pyramidsinegypt]

The big round concrete towers are just cooling towers. Basically very big radiators. Germany doesn't have any nuclear reactors anymore. As for the 'jet engine' - the guy is explaining that it can pump 8000 liter / 2113 gallon of water per minute and that it has 2000 liter of a foaming agent on board. In the video he explains that a truck like that is used in airports.

[@quoll4961]

The second one, with the ladder, ive been on that thing. Fully extended. Beautiful view over hamburg. ❤

[@phoe8523]

The "TULF" (TUrbinen-LöschFahrzeug) is used for cooling down burning constructions like in a chemical plant. It is also used to precipitate harmful gases or aerosols out of the air. The exhaust of the jet engines turns these huge quantities of water into a fine spray. All of those vehicles are from Plant fire brigades (Werkfeuerwehr). Normal fire brigades usually do not have those insane machines.

[@Arhey]

First ones was actual emergency. It is factory fire brigade of the chemical park in Leverkusen, where over 200 chemical companies work like BAYER, Covestro or LANXESS. 90 Meter one is also factory fire brigade from RWE (energy company) at coal power plant. The Turbine one is also factory fire brigade from Evonik chemical factory. In general Werksfeuerwehr means factory fire brigade. Some of bigger factories have own fire brigade, which are also working for the company and are not part of city fire department. However sometimes they support cities in bigger fires, also just to get some practice.

[@rainermarx5217]

The first ones had license plates of the city of Leverkusen (15-20 km north of Cologne) and according to the inscription they were vehicles of the plant fire department, which can only be the fire department of Bayer AG, a large chemical and pharmaceutical company.

[@HROspotter]

The first clip was from "Chempark" in Leverkusen its a huge spacial fire brigade on a chemical factory ground

[@timuracay]

The Truck with 2 turbines is from the BASF company in Ludwigshafen Fire Department and the vehicle is used to extinguish chemical accidents or volumes and if you have ever worked with paint, there is a high probability, even in America, that you have used paint from this company.

[@SmartassX1]

The one at 3:00 that you couldn't recognize is a Scania. 7:10 - That's a "cooling tower". These are used at nuclear power plants and coal power plants to get rid of surplus heat.

[@Banana-Joe-84]

The System with the Turbines are for cooling down and stop spreading of a Fire. A nice Sideeffect is that it take the Fire the Air to breath.

[@vincha001]

Most of the cars you looked at came from a Werksfeuerwehr, meaning they belong to a power plant or a large company and are a small internal fire station, which is why they are so special and large. The truck with the jet engine also came from a Werksfeuerwehr and is responsible for cooling the refinery, if it burnes (if I understood that correctly). There are small differences between conventional fire departments (Feuerwehr) and company fire departments (Werksfeuerwehr) (and also volunteer fire departments (Freiwillige Feuerwehr)). Greetings from Germany🤗

[@rembrandt2323]

About the Jet-Engine: They said the Jets can also (alternatively) get powered with other Fueles and not just Kerosin but also Petrolium. I never saw such a Truck before but it must be of most importance to Cool something down and ensure that the Truck can do so even if you run out of Kerosin. Pretty impressiv Truck. I saw other Trucks (not such one, this is HUGE) being able to cool things down. THIS is used to prevent Explosions or anything like this.

[@AHVENAN]

The Nissan pickup truck by the 13 minute mark is what we here in Europe call a Nissan King Cab, they are extremely popular where I live in Finland, maybe even more so the older more boxy 80s/90s models. super reliable, durable and capable trucks from my understanding!

[@kosta_k_86]

11:09 it's used for fighting fire's in chemical plant's

[@pinguin3084]

Although there are some standard vehicles in Germany, many of them are custom-built vehicles like the one at the beginning of the video. There are vehicles and trained personnel for almost every conceivable situation. There is also the THW (Technisches Hilfswerk) - which is blue - which has wheel loaders the size of a house, for example, or pumps that are as big as trucks. For example, every local authority and smaller town is required to have a command vehicle, which is a vehicle with computers for managing operations; in addition, every district and larger town needs an ELW2, which is already truck-sized and offers space for a whole staff of commanders, communication, now including drones and much more. The fire departments in Germany is really well equipped.

[@Bonsai61]

90 m = 98 yds Truck with jet engines: As far as I understood this is used besides fire protection also for down cooling. Mainly used for chemical industrie.

[@NoahEliasDennis]

the additional steering axles mean smaller radius in a curve - which is important in densely populated cities and villages. Maybe bot so in those typically widespread American suburbs

[@AErathon]

Ich finde es krass das in letzter Zeit viele Englischsprachige KZbinr auf Deutschland reagieren 😊

[@almerindaromeira8352]

As someone who was already been on top of such a vehicle, I can tell you it is all but stable.

[@Engwatathraion]

The first video isn't a demonstration. It's a Übung (drill; those are announced in newspapers etc to ease civilians). On some of the vehicles you can read "Werksfeuerwehr". That means they come from an industrial background, highly specialised in what they can do, extreme output of water / foam, etc. Yes, basically like on an airfield. The second one is an introduction of a new vehicle to the fire station. A "welcome party" of sorts. You need 200 meters for a parachute to open. And then it didn't slow you down, yet. 90 meters in that case isn't much... @7:30 This is a coal powerplant, the second biggest one in Europe (biggest one is in Poland). The one with the turbine (you guessed correctly; and again it's for industrial use!) is veeeery exceptional! It is used for "Großbrandereignisse" (fucking huge fires! Yes, we have a waord for that), e.g. in tuinnels or industrial scenarios. And 8000 liters a minute... That's 2113.376 gallons. Per minute. Just for the fun of it.

[@ChR0nos_7734]

For comparison, tallest office/apartment building in Croatia (Dalmatia Tower, Split) is 130m. So that 90m telescoping mast is only 40m shorter. And most of newer highrise buildings in Croatia are at 90-100m height 13:00 1st gen Nissan Navara singlecab 13:00 Mercedes Vito (if it's cargo van or crew transport like this one) and Viano/V-class if it's more luxurious VIP type of transport. Camping version is called Viano Marco Polo edition. In US 3rd gen (in video is 2nd gen) is called Metris 13:45 Mercedes Sprinter (3rd gen) ambulance

[@alexmonroe613]

Ian!----1m is 3'3" (and a little bit!)... so just multiply by 3 add a 1/4 and round it up... so 90 x 3 (270) + 1/4 of 90 (22.5) ... with me so far (292.5) and round it up (295 feet) This is not 100% accurate but its close - when I need to do a really rough estimate I just multiply by 3 and add a bit so anyone who said "about 300' is close enough

[@grisu964]

hello ian, Great reacting video that you filmed of the German special fire brigade vehicles. Information about the turbo fire engine from the chemical company: BASF from Ludwigshafen. Yes, the vehicle is unique. But BASF has a good reason for ordering and operating such a special vehicle. The vehicle ultimately costs 1.7 million US dollars. But BASF has learned from past mistakes. Similar to Beirut, there was also an ammonium sulfate saltpeter explosion at BASF/Ludwigshafen on September 21, 1921. HOWEVER, four times bigger. The crater was 19 m deep, 125 m long and 90 m wide 521 people died immediately, 1,952 were injured and 7,000 were homeless. The pressure wave could still be felt for 100 KM. In 2016 there was another accident in which five people died and 28 others were injured. I think that explains this vehicle.

[@Ryusei1986]

Easiest point that helps me translate from Meters to Feet or vice versa: 10ft is roughly 3 meters.

[@Gr8Buccaneer]

atomizing water creates more surface area, so less water is needed to have bigger effects.in a smaller version,they have these for hand use.for example,a engine fire on a car.open the hood a little bit,then hold this "gun" under the hood and woosh.. 1 blow,its out with probably half a galon of water.

[@Jan-k7s]

2:56 it went Code 2 on Thursday June 27th so it's now an active engine in the video it came to the Fire Deparment which is the F32 in Hamburg after it was fully build, but the Firemen had to learn how to operate it that's why it went active now and not the Day from the Video

[@adamabele785]

The vehicle with the turbines is to protect against chemicals, aerosols and poisonous or otherwise dangerous gases and vapors that might escape from one of the chemical plants. This can be used to cool down tanks or spray foam on a fire as well. It also has remote control in case the area is too dangerous for humans to enter or in the first phase of the response when nobody knows if the area is contaminated with dangerous chemicals. This is very specialized and probably developed to mitigate a potential accident in one specific chemical plant.

[@thomasschaefer1331]

90 Meter are round, about 270 feet near a cooling tower. The Jet engines make a fine fog, so fire would cool down. Fire needs temperature. They are often on airports or chemical companies. Evonik is a Chemical company

[@sl66ls2006]

The base truck is the P 500 B from Scania. The remaining bodies were manufactured by a specialist company in Switzerland.