*MASS Q + FAIL TO YEILD* Orange County Fire Engine 57, Truck 54 and Squad 1 (spares) responding

OCFR Engine 57, Truck 54 and Squad 1 reserves responding to a house fire.
Orlando, FL - 2024

[@soonerstatefirephotography]

Ya gotta love it when 2 fire trucks and 3 civilian cars are honking at you and your still too stupid to move 😂. Awesome catches, very unique engine!

[@sebastianmerv]

It’s a spare squad.

[@joegaito702]

Please give them the benefit of the doubt they are very busy responding as always excellent outstanding brilliant they deserve alot of credit tons of it let's honor and appreciate the paramedics and firemen and police and the battlion chief who proudly serve us your service and time and efforts are deeply appreciated great job great team work and great and sweet catches as usual still going strong great team efforts are deeply appreciated stay safe and warm out there stay strong and healthy as well much love and respect and appreciation job well done you should be proud way to go very impressed keep the vidoes please keep them safe out there and coming a big massive thanks to everyone who responds and works around the clock to keep us safe out there way to go appreciate you guys thanks !!! Joe

[@motoxman541]

As a career firefighter since 1988 and a district chief since 2014 I can assure you that “ standing “ on the “Q” does absolutely nothing. Studies have shown that people said they believed that the sound “ noise” they heard was a piece of industrial machinery and not a fire truck. Second thing is that with today’s newer vehicles and the sound deadening people just don’t hear you. Third is your following a vehicle with your siren on at 40 mph you already outran your siren. The WON’T hear you at all. Now that talk about a intersection with traffic in front of the approaching apparatus. Emergency vehicles ARE NOT PERMITTED TO PUSH YOU THROUGH A RED SIGNAL. As a civilian you DO NOT have to put yourself in danger and go throw a red traffic signal to make way for an emergency vehicle. My department has added several forward facing lights including two rows in the front bumper alone. ( on our engines and trucks) Doing this we have noticed people getting out of the way much sooner than with the siren screaming and the recommended lighting. I drive a 2023 Chevy Tahoe and we have added more lights in the grille and 4 flush mounted lights on the front bumper. These added lights have had a positive impact on vehicles yielding way before we even approach them. I bet it. The “Q” is cool but it is never used the way it was meant to be used.

[@sebastianmerv]

Well if they don’t go through the red light lives aren’t gonna be saved. All lanes are to stop when they see a fire truck and let the people that are with the fire truck go through the red light and get out their way.

[@motoxman541]

@ An emergency vehicle stuck in traffic at a traffic light must stop anyway before clearing the intersection and proceeding. Activation of your emergency lights and siren only saves on the average of 30 seconds. At an intersection the cross traffic will not hear your siren, they will more likely see your lights. Remember sound travels in a straight line. You said about saving life’s. What if someone goes through a red light because an emergency vehicle is behind them and gets “T” boned and killed. AN EMERGENCY VEHICLE CAN NOT FORCE YOU THROUGH A RED TRAFFIC SIGNAL.

[@firedog6233]

When they’ve got no place to go, you just sit and wait until they do. It is what it is.

[@Bird_Enforcement]

At this point they should just push all the cars out the way since it's obstruction.

[@joshh1948]

People have no sense of awareness.

[@GlitchManPlayyz2]

Why is the engine like a candy paint scheme

[@sebastianmerv]

It’s for veterans