Fire response City of Sydney Fire & Rescue NSW

The year 2012 is only 3 hours old when fire units of the Fire and Rescue New South Wales are being sent to a fire in a downtown building in Sydney. Pumps from the The Rocks and Darlinghurst fire stations are being dispatched immediately. Sydney central fire station's units are also being called. The "flyer" pump is already on another call but the "runner" pump gets dispatched. You can see the "R" for runner on the dispatch sign. While the crew is preparing, the aerial truck is dispatched to the call. The aerial is a 4 axle Scania Bronto Skylift F44 RLX. Shortly later, the salvage unit which is a rescue truck is also leaving the station. Because the salvage is parked behind the rescue pump, the RP needs to get out first. On the way to the incident, i was able to catch the flyer pump followed by an ambulance. But the ambo was actually going to another call. When i finally got to the scene, i also filmed another ambulance and a SUV with the fire commander. I have no more information about this call //
Das Jahr 2012 ist erst 3 Stunden alt, als Einheiten der Feuerwehr von New South Wales zu einem Feuer in der Innenstadt von Sydney gerufen werden. Löschfahrzeuge der Wachen The Rocks und Darlinghurst werden sofort losgeschickt. Aber auch von der Hauptfeuerwache werdne Einheiten alarmiert. Ein Löschfahrzeug ist bereits bei einem anderen Einsatz gebunden aber das zweite wird entsandt. Während sich die Mannschaft fertig macht wird der Gelenkmast alamiert. Es handelt sich um einen 4-achser Scania Bronto Skylift F44 RLX. Nur Augenblicke später wird der Rüstwagen ebenfalls alarmiert. Hierfür muss aber ein HTLF aus der Halle gefahren werden. Unterwegs konnte ich noch das erste Löschfahrzeug filmen, dass doch noch zum Feuer geschickt wurde, gefolgt von einem Rettungswagen, dieser fuhr jedoch zu einem anderen Einsatz.Am Einsatzort trafen dann noch ein Rettungswagen sowie der Einsatzleiter der Feuerwehr ein. Weitere Details über den Einsatz sind mir nicht bekannt //
by Dirk Steinhardt - www.rescue911.de - www.rescue-tube... - Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - 01.2012
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[@SydneyEmergency]

First pumper is out the door in roughly 1 minute. Thats 1 minute it took them to wake up at 3am, go down to the engine bay, get dressed into PPE, get on board the truck and respond. Keep in mind the pumper has a crew of 5 fire fighters who all need to accomplish this. I would call that pretty good and would like to see some of the people commented on here about the slow response time do the same. The other trucks are you can see where dispatched at later times in the video as more resources were being called for as the incident escalated. From the time of their dispatch the aerial appliance took 1 and a half minutes to respond, the rescue pumper 50 seconds and the rescue 1 and a half minutes, again, all under the same circumstances as the first pump. Also keep in mind these fire fighters were dedicating their night to protecting the people of Sydney, spending an important event away from their family to serve others, they don't deserve to be criticised, nor should they be because as far as I see it they performed as best they could.

[@cristianabiscuit6841]

thyt

[@vr299]

Agree your point , Also every turnout may be their last turn out because the Firefighters didn't what the real situation has before they arrived the scene .In some critical situation ,the officer may get injured seriously or even die in their line of duty. Please give the greatest appreciate to every fire fighters,paramedics and law enforcement officers who protecting us.

[@adampeace5550]

Sydney Emergency

[@adamzou3311]

Sydney Emergency v'

[@liamhoyne7721]

Sydney Emergency All our emergency services here in Aus are pretty good. The Media and People always give them criticism but in reality they don't understand how hard it is.

[@000Responses]

Its not often that someone from outside Straya catches our emergency vehicles...but you did it well!

[@bassamamer8502]

Tjgk

[@joshiscool7356]

000 Responses big fan mate

[@EdoardoMarini]

European trucks, North American sirens, mixed lights: European pattern and North American colours. The soul of Australia in firefighter version.

[@ALPHAFIVETWOFIVE]

That's the paging board that lets the crews know which appliance/s is requirred. F (Flyer), R (Runner), RP (Rescue Pumper), S (Salvage/Heavy Rescue), A (Aerial), LSV (Logistics Support Vehicle).

[@rrrohan2288]

youd think with all the tech we have these days they could modernize that system. have a tv screen at least jesus

[@benjamin-rn5zn]

rrrohan2288 why replace something that already works?

[@mikehilbert9349]

Thanks, I was curious about the alphabet board, that makes sense.

[@PhirePhlame]

@@rrrohan2288 Why? It's not meant to look pretty, and light bulbs behind a pane is a much easier & cheaper device both to build and to repair.

[@rrrohan2288]

@@PhirePhlame sad thats the logic that the guys doing the budget have come to

[@udaykumarpushpala181]

I salute this brave men and women, who are known as firefighters , they sacrifice their lives so that others can live. long live the firefighters around the world.

[@hoshukai]

Udaykumar Pushpal

[@martw5291]

I'm for the UK and I admit the blue LEDs look good but nothing beats a set of red and blues

[@clivewalters1061]

Not sure why the two different colours: all Aussie emergency vehicles have them. Maybe to deal with the differing conspicuity of the colours in different lighting conditions (sunny day, overcast, etc.); although I'd be surprised if that much science went into it. If there was some science I'd think that all the lights would be synchronised: much better for spatial locating by drivers, particularly at night.

[@V340E419]

@@clivewalters1061 funny enough they did a study and found that blue lights are easier to see in the nighttime. Lots of the trucks here in Canada are turning 50/50.

[@theofficialemergencyservic7881]

Qld added blue lights back around 2004 due to many accidents involving emergency vehicles. I was amazed at how much more visible the emergency vehicles where with blue and red lights . Qld ambulance and some new fire trucks are moving towards USA sirens now.

[@jonahsgang8830]

Me to I agree I’m from the uk and your right but the siren I love

[@PouLS]

Imo opinion emergency vehicles with 1 colour ljghts are looking cooler, but vehicles with red and blue are safer - if someone is colorblind to red, he will see blue and vice versa. Some countries use onlu blue beacause not only emergency vehicles use red light and people could think those red lights are brake lights.

[@MegaTonkaman]

Better making no comments until you have actually done this at 3 am.

[@gundemon3393]

MegaTonkaman exactly go from a dead sleep to 100 and lets see who gets left at the station house

[@stevenkelly9731]

piece of cake.

[@stevenkelly9731]

Speed Demon no one gets left.

[@unknown-hn7ib]

How u know it's 3am? (Sry if I miss any info at vid and all)

[@nicaln5104]

Agreed, everyone thinks we have to be high speed even though that’s the leading cause of mistakes and injury. I’m an example of having my driver break the bay door from rushing. Honestly move quick on scene.

[@Sim.L]

I live near that fire station and what I've notice is that the 1st truck will always leave with-in the minute mark and the rest will leave like you see here, most of the call outs they get would be false alarms being right in the cbd... so not really a big deal to have the other trucks there, they have the rumbler sirens now so it's fucked at 3am

[@HarrisonMcNeill]

Those are some great looking trucks! Hopefully I will get to see them in person one day.

[@TrugginsOFFICIAL]

+Harrison McNeill (Bumblebeetuna304) Hello fellow NASCAR fan, I am actually a fellow Australian too. CRAZY!!!

[@HarrisonMcNeill]

+Truggins I'm not Australian but I do love NASCAR!

[@EnjoyFirefighting]

nope, the main building is 110 m long, plus sports ground and parking lots. But it isn't that big for no reason, we have 3 Engines, 3 Aerials (each 100ft), 2 Tankers, 1 Heavy Rescue, 1 Technical Rescue, 1 Water/Heights Rescue, 1 Command, 6 Chief cars, 3 vans, 3 trucks and 3 pod carriers with 15 different containers, 1 forklift and 2 boats

[@GMan-yv8cb]

The first time I watched this, I too thought it was a slow respnse. BUT, after reading some comments, re-watching, and keeping an eye on the clock, I realized No, they made GOOD TIME-OUT! I, sitting in my comfy chair, had a distorted perception. I Have responded-from a dead sleep [at HOME!] driven to the fire house, driven to the call, returned, and THEN gone to work ! But the surprising thing is Later, finding out 'Dispatch' to 'On-Scene' was 2.5 minutes! So, time perception vs. reality ... NO JUDGEMENT... NO CRITICISMS!! Good Job Guys !!!!!

[@afcgeo882]

Except watch again, but this time watch the speed at which the guys put on their gear and depart. You don’t know exactly when they got the call from the video. It starts after the call came in. It is also edited. You can easily see that. Don’t guess. Look at their individual speeds, how their gear is set up, especially for the first crew. They could cut their time in half, if they bothered to.

[@mickschofield7819]

The Flyer responded to 18 calls that night.It is Sydneys busiest fire station the flyer responded to over 7500 calls in 2012.Its not the busiest working statiion as in the amount of workers(75% of the calls are for automatic alarms)but both the flyer and runner respond more times than any other truck in the city.

[@res40cue]

Love seeing other countires fire service and the apparatus. Thanks Rescue. Keep up the good work.

[@megadethrocks1]

Other appliances where already on scene and fighting the fire. These appliances where being called for individually as the alarm level rose, apart from the flyer which has 30 seconds to get out the door, the standard time is 90 seconds. And thank you for bringing the USA into this thread, i don't see how it relates to anything, but again, thank you.

[@EnjoyFirefighting]

as much as I understand your argumentation: our station's area is 180 m long and 90 m wide, with buildings on 4 sides of the huge backyard, the main building with several floors, and we still leave the station within 60 to 90 seconds...

[@aussiefirie]

EnjoyFirefighting - International Emergency Response Videos and so did they. Takes a bit extra time at 3am when you're fast asleep.

[@afcgeo882]

@@aussiefirie No, they didn’t. I watched, carefully. The video starts AFTER the call came in and has multiple cuts in it before the first unit departs. It took well over that.

[@DeiMudderSeiBart]

Das sind ja mal geile Tore vom Feuerwehrhaus, sowas hab ich auch noch nicht gesehen. Die Wagen sehen auch super aus, klasse Aufnahme!

[@ngodongbach473]

ill really did the last ruck that left, it still has the old nsw brigade livery as well as those spinning halogen beacons on top, those trucks look so good!!

[@megadethrocks1]

Their is no difference, it's just a callsign. It's coined from the "flying squad", who manned the 1st pump who had to be out the door in less then 30 seconds from a call coming in, hence the name flyer, and the 2nd pump which ran all over sydney supporting other stations, hence the name runner.

[@johnroberts9560]

I like the Australian siren that sounds pretty cool ! 👍😃

[@AJ-dv7hf]

What do you think of these? kzbin.info/www/bejne/rqC8c5-vqMZojK8 Australian made LTS/Locktronic sirens, made from 1978 - circa 2010 I believe

[@Anonymous-qm8rd]

Here in Australia, we have most commonly bush fires, house fires, gas fires and rescue ladders are not used as much. When there is a bush fire and they can't control it, they get helicopters and planes filled with water and spray it across a huge mass of land.

[@brontesmith7168]

We more commonly have...everything 😂aha and usually it's retardants in the planes/heelos

[@mariaverde1290]

The Ender Mechanics

[@jeremiahgodson9909]

The Ender Mechanics Team Australia j

[@daonguyen4779]

The Ender Mechanics Team Australia yg

[@viadia3186]

Lots of equipment made in the Nordic countries! 🤗 Scania trucks from Sweden and Bronto Skylift aerial platform from Finland.

[@automandan3066]

We like Good Quality Products

[@04smallmj]

And tables from IKEA :D

[@YelpBullhorn]

Well I don't know of any firefighter that actually rates Scanias. Slow, lumbering, uncomfortable and unreliable are the criticisms I regularly hear.

[@raleighepp5274]

Ontario, Canada is adding blue led's to all Fire Trucks!

[@ALPHAFIVETWOFIVE]

They differ in name only. City of Sydney station is the only station to use the terms Flyer and Runner as keeping with their tradition/history. Flyer is simply the first out the door to a call. The original names of "Headquarters Running Motor and Flying Motor" are around 100 years old.

[@megadethrocks1]

Also for everyone claiming "we could have emptied that station in 3 minutes" and "slow response!", at the start of the video, only 1 truck was paged (that 1 light on the screen at the start of the vid) and as they where turning out, the job escalated, and more appliances where called for as the alarm levels rose. Notice as the runners crew was gearing up and turning out, the A on the screen lit up? thats for the aerial.

[@Cocomelonfireball]

Great catch :) I think we need more lights on the side and rear..... They should put led lights on the varley trucks

[@diegotheking4530]

u7

[@Legacy_Media_NZ]

If you read the description is tells you that this station was not first due, therefore the response of this station is not as urgent

[@jheeshin621]

5:25 That looks like a more traditional style of light flashing, rather than all flashing at once.

[@Recovering_Californian]

Love those LED lightbars

[@jessm5558]

Love that Nissan SUV

[@jessm5558]

+Nissan GTR i love those trucks at 5:18

[@infinitecanadian]

That is still massive!

[@exxzackly]

Nice trucks down there!!

[@richcook2007]

Y'all have some nice looking rigs! Michigan USA.

[@wannabenj]

I love the emergency lights.Stars,thats pretty cool

[@kevinjredmond1129]

I like the sirens, the trucks & I'd love to go for a visit & a ride out some day. Stay safe!

[@Brendan_BRUTAL]

whoa watch out we have a bad ass over here, i got acouple family friends that are based on flyer and he was the one that told me that station does over 5000 calls a year

[@aussiefirie]

8000 actually

[@afcgeo882]

The average FDNY station averages over 10000 callouts a year, with 2013 having been the busiest year with over 12000 on average.

[@CobraEmergency]

Love the Ladder Platform truck! Awesome

[@RileyMitchell01]

I’ve been in the ladder platform

[@Nelle83]

Nice lights, when watching this video in 2 AM, gonna wake up whole neighbourhood ;)

[@MagnumPI4]

Sweet firehouse!

[@000Responses]

MagnumPI4 yes it’s very big!

[@RAMRAM-uj4yd]

Nice videography, very good professionalism

[@joshsomerton9700]

cool fire station cool fire trucks

[@DomesticFelon]

Super Cool I love it

[@josephpeacock4849]

Very good lads 👍🤩😍👌🙏👏🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@coastrunner536]

Incorrect. Not all of these appliances get responded at the same time.

[@CDB8939]

The video description tells you its a F44 RLX, That is 44 metres. Helsinki have an F61 RPX (61 metres). Moscow have a F101 HLA which is 101 metres

[@olizandrey2]

Excellent video! Recording skills right there.

[@syngensmyth4587]

A few comments on the sirens below. To clarify I remember a low level female politician - her name escapes me- complained about fire truck sirens as she lived in an inner city apartment. Fire trucks always respond code red with siren on all the way. I think after her fuss about those noisy sirens the fire siren in NSW at least was toned down a little. I personally agree the Federal sirens used on US trucks identifies a fire truck very clearly and NSW Fire should take it up.

[@robbarbour7564]

There's a saying in America and it goes: it's not who you know it's who you blow!!! Cause we even have that rule in the area I worked in before I transferred to another area. We couldn't use the siren when leaving from the station

[@MegaMantim]

Federal Q's are very effective here in the U.S. and really clear a path but in the last 10 yrs or so Ambulances have put an imitation electronic imposter Fed Q on...Absolute sacrilege...lol

[@afcgeo882]

Sirens should be used when situations need them. On an empty street, in the middle of the night, the only things sirens do is wake up the neighbours and stroke the fire fighters’ egos.

[@qldemergencyvehicleturnouts]

Awesome catch mate!

[@ALPHAFIVETWOFIVE]

They were being requested at different times due to an escalated response.

[@EthanOnDemand]

Watch some vids on the QLD Fire and Rescue Service. They have nice sirens.

[@pizzasubs]

Now I wouldnt mind having that kind of a garage door...LOL but not it being all glass like that though.....

[@NovakDjokovic5000]

Come to Western Sydney and you will see heaps of Emergency Services. Its crazy every night there are sirens nonstop!!

[@055deltic]

Another excellent video - thanks! The red & blue lights are very effective, especially in these night time shots. In first clip, glad I wasn't needing rescued that night - 3mins to get the first unit on the road!!?

[@sav47]

Are they all Scania P or G Series?

[@64WildStyle]

I love the lights, great video. Nice catch indeed.

[@likeaprimitiveman]

I love all fire trucks

[@MegaZebra18]

different types of rescue and operations, and its the name of the crew

[@dfw_fpis7655]

I love the trucks there! I visited Sydney recently and saw one of them responding. I personally don't like their choice of sirens. Then again I don't really hear them often since I live in the U.S.A. With that aside I love the trucks and the way they have the checker board paint job around the truck. That is similar to our chevrons here. I also love the fact that they use both red and blue lights on their rigs. Usually in the U.S. I only see red on fire trucks, so it was nice to see red and blue. Great catch and thanks for sharing!

[@brownsugar4X4]

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[@dfw_fpis7655]

fireman505 Really, why comment if you're not even making a true comment?

[@usmanbilal3536]

fireman505 che cazzo dici

[@dfw_fpis7655]

usman bilal I know right,lol.

[@dfw_fpis7655]

***** Yeah I like their sirens too, but since I live in the U.S. I prefer the Q. They still have a great siren though.

[@FirefightingWolf31]

Could somebody explain the difference between a "runner pump" and a "flyer pump" to me? Many thanks in advance! Kind regards, David (a firefighter from Belgium)

[@aussiefirie]

Flyer and Runner are call signs from back when the fire brigade started. The"Flyer" was named as it had to be out the door in under a minute of receiving a call and looked like it was flying out the door, with the rew sleeping nearby in a room on the ground floor. The "Runner" was named as it had to be out the door in under 2 minutes ofreceiving a call and always looked like it was running after the Flyer.

[@noahater5785]

The salvage unit could use a lighting upgrade, those lights don't seem nearly as bright as the LEDs on the other units

[@infinitecanadian]

You're joking! 180m?! Wow...

[@BadenCityFire]

blue and red lights are the best ! :-)

[@UnitedKingdom1993]

Why cant we have blue lights in Canada too :(

[@baz9313]

What is the board with the letters on it ? Certain letters were lighting up at different times ? I'm not quite sure what that is.....?

[@reggieh629]

The different letters on the board mean the different type of trucks. F is flyer R is runner A is aerial and s is heavy rescue and salvage

[@reggieh629]

When the letters light up it means they need that truck

[@baz9313]

+Reagan Haysom Ohhh, okay. Thanks :)

[@kevinjredmond1129]

& I don't have any issue with their push out times, like it's said, at 3 in the morning, not bad at all!!

[@kedaiiyt9526]

Nice catch

[@user-jx7yj3jn7d]

Спасатель не спешит, спасатель понимает... Rescuer in no hurry. Rescuer understands...

[@afcgeo882]

Что ему всё равно больше не заплатят? Очень русское понятие. That he won’t get paid any more? That’s a really Russian way of thinking.

[@xXIcyStealthXx]

@ImageIsBaws what do you mean hate? They all do the same job. Doesn't matter about the shape/sound of the truck or gear it does the same job. The Fire brigades in Sydney have some of the best technology in the world, if not the best. Doesn't matter anyway they still save life's

[@caiuspostumiusturrinus1024]

For trucks that damn big you guys need at least an eqb.

[@nrlboy7947]

I live in Newcastle where near Sydney

[@Jaslo112]

What name model is your camera?

[@queenslandlightsxsirens6555]

What a pretty catch bro awesome and subscribed

[@MichaelMadsen2]

coool sound - sounds like ours in Denmark :) Happy new year

[@RatownictwoPowiatuMieleckiego]

Can you tell my, what camera do you use? What stabilizer system do you have? It is only IS in your camera, or something different? Movies from this camera look very smooth ;)

[@lucasluger7947]

Which car Must Drive to the accident

[@kamilgracz]

Take you time guys !

[@jessm5558]

Shut up about that

[@rwash927]

I think if the response time were any slower time would reverse and there would be no emergency...

[@aussiefirie]

Ryan Washington when did a 1 minute response time become slow?

[@EnjoyFirefighting]

technisch gibts da keinen Unterschied, werden aber zum besseren Auseinanderhalten intern als Flyer und Runner genannt, wobei Flyer meist als erstes Fahrzeug fährt

[@sarahsrandomvideos6965]

Great catches 🚒🚒

[@zig-y1v]

So your saying CoS station 001 is not the busiest in NSW?

[@aussiefirie]

ziggyzedly is for callout (approximately 8000 a year) but not for actually fires. They mainly get turned out to AFAs

[@fpstina]

didn't expect that garage door to open like that! crazy Aussies and their upside down world

[@rebelliousmedic]

They have doors like that in the US & London too, or Chicago with no doors.

[@rrrohan2288]

i love how they take their time ffs its not like its a emergency lol "just let me pull my socks up cause i couldnt possible do that on the way

[@EthanOnDemand]

They would have been the second or third call out. Other crews would have already been at the scene.

[@xXIcyStealthXx]

USA hate? I absolutely love the USA, i never said anything against the Fire departments of the US. I'm just trying to comment on most commenters saying how their country trucks are bigger in size and sound better. they all do the same job. i merely commented on one person. But you scroll through other videos of the Aussie brigades or other countries brigades there is a countless list of people judging the trucks by its looks.

[@EarthlyDude501]

Sick door!

[@E655Caimano]

Magnific video !!! :-D

[@maxpredator911]

Very very nice video !

[@jakesurferdude3172]

Nice Footage!

[@markfryer9880]

Completely different layout of their units when compared to MFB [Melbourne] units.

[@albertlau128]

What are the signs at 0:19?

[@Assualtron-Ahh-person]

Mate I love me country 🇦🇺

[@Samue784]

what camera do you use?

[@seVereGemini]

NO pics, just new reports unfortunately. NO media was allowed anywhere near it

[@albertlau128]

What do they mean?

[@exxzackly]

I think you mean 2013.

[@nrkeks2347]

am I the only one who notices that WRX in the background @ 5:29??

[@elgato5424]

i have been in that station before and did u know that ladder is the biggest ladder in australia -------------did u film this

[@RatownictwoPowiatuMieleckiego]

Beautiful! ;)

[@FloRider66]

Gibts ein Unterschied zwischen Flyer und Runner Pump?

[@noahater5785]

I think you meant 2013, you have a typo in your description

[@christophercotton9048]

What is that lighted 911 display on the wall and what do those codes mean?

[@afcgeo882]

Which truck is needed.

[@starcraftguy1]

Wow that's very big, very rare in the world. Any links? I can't find any...