I noticed this in Florida, especially, but it seems like more and more lately, fire trucks and ambulances roam around without their sirens on, or just sit parked on the outskirts of grocery store parking lots, seemingly being watchdogs for the police. I’ve also noticed them put on their sirens and blast and blare their [...]
i was 5 blocks away from the twin towers i first saw the first plane in the sky and then i look up to the twin towers and all of the sudded it hit the buildings the parts of the plane hit the floor then traffic was stoped and the police and abulance and fire [...]
Well it finally happened. My poor old crappy truck finally blowed up and burnt to ashes this afternoon on my way back home from work. My old hag of a wife wouldn’t giove me the money to change the oil like i shoulda and I ended up drivint it for two years on the same [...]
As I can see in youtube videos, ambulances in belgium and germany have airhorn sirens fitted to the ambulance itself. As I know it is used to warn traffic much better (since airhorns are louder); but is there a disadvantage to using airhorns in ambulances? but why do european fire trucks use airhorn siren (w/o [...]