What's INSIDE a $350,000 AMBULANCE

welcome back to heroes next door today on station ridge we are in t-neck new jersey we have a pretty cool truck because this is a classic and they're still running it front line to help me with the tour today we're going to talk to the chief of t-neck here this is chief izzy enfield and he's going to help us with the ins and outs of this classic vehicle hey chief how you doing today how are you guys today not too bad this is a pretty unique vehicle because it's a classic so what are some of the things that you know it doesn't have and some of the things that it does have that make it pretty cool so this is our 1989 gmc i said that correct 1989 still in service to this day what makes this vehicle unique is it's got manual windows it also doesn't have electronic door locks but when you look at it it uh has a lot of modern upgrades over the years we have a interior and backup camera so that's to help us see what's behind us it has our up-to-date radios sirens and lights unlike our modern ambulances with a push button transmission we still have a manual grab transmission and we have our computer over here in the console so what make and model is this it's a gmc sierra 7000 with a with a diesel engine okay and how many miles they've got currently on it it's got 133 058 miles wow original styles still first line still first line it's proven its reliability it starts up every time it gets where it gets you where you need to go and it gets the patient of the hospital does it even have airbags uh it does not have airbags now the ride on this truck is it comfortable it rides great would you prefer this one over some of the other trucks i personally do prefer it all right why why is that uh it's simple and it uh it turns heads going down the road uh people don't believe uh believe it until they see it what kind of reliability do you have on it almost 32 years all right let's take a look around the rest of the truck the cab is pretty cool but there's a lot of things in these vehicles correct so come in our next compartment a lot of our ambulances are laid out almost identical and that started back in 1989 when we switched to medium duties this is actually the first medium duty on the northern east coast of the united states came all the way from front line in florida so we opened this compartment here and uh we have our oxygen tank some old school wooden backboards okay haven't seen those in a while but yeah you don't usually see them but it's the only boards that fit in this compartment as it was designed for it right and they they lay sideways so they're going all the way back from side to side up top we have mci bags and our mci equipment we see a couple mci's every couple years so we're readily prepared we can grab these kits and go triage patients and wait for the next ambulances to show up for those who are watching that don't know what's an mci it's a mass casualty incident and you've had one i've heard i have we had just a couple years ago on a big ice storm on a sunday morning we had a 50-plus car pile up and uh in this ambulance i was on the crew that transported 13 people at once wow wow so it's a big ambulance correct so why so big uh due to the fact that we have uh three large highways that run through town and some major roadways uh the medium duties help us to carry additional personnel additional patients if needed and additional equipment which we'll get to being that we are a pretty busy department our ambulances are stocked up that if we clear the call we're ready to go right to the next call sometimes even three to five calls you know you can leave the station and you're not back for four hours just running back-to-back calls wow it's like a big city call correct okay they have some safety to them some visibility uh they're bigger so they sit and they create a larger presence while out on the highway for visibility we'll take a look at the lights later for that safety aspect but let's continue around the truck what's in this cabinet behind us this has vents on it correct in here we have a second engine it's called a generator what this generator does is it helps provide additional power we can actually run the ambulance solely on this generator on a long duration scene and provide air conditioning heat and power to the back of the unit without having to run the ambulance okay so this looks like the generators that we've seen on some of the fire trucks at the other stations that's pretty much the same thing you have 110 volt halogen lighting on the older ambulances that require more power but it's a standalone unit that even when it's running on an average call it's charging the ambulance and helping keep it powered while running how do you fuel it it's run off the same diesel fuel tank as the ambulance that's awesome what's behind this uh behind here we have a blanket compartment where we keep extra blankets some rain blankets some wool blankets for cold months or motor vehicle accidents we even carry a stuffed animal for our pediatric patients all of our ambulances have one to two different stuffed animals uh pediatric patients love them they get to keep them after the call and it's a gift from us that's awesome that's awesome is this cabinet can i reach that from inside so you actually can uh once we get inside i'll show you you can actually get to all of the rear compartments from the inside grab any piece of equipment that you may need on the way to the call or on the way to the hospital without having to stop at any point okay so i don't have to get out to get that stuff animal i can get it from inside what's the next cabinet we got in this compartment we keep our defibrillator we keep our suction units that are plugged in and charging at all times we keep a bleeding control kit this is if we went on a mass shooting stabbing or anything where there's going to be a lot of patients that are bleeding we can take this to the israeli dressings the turtle kids all that kind of pressure dressings um there's like four individual kits there that we can treat um all kinds of patients with each member will grab one and go with one of those mci bags and start treat uh treating those patients very cool we hope to never have to use them understood but they're here and each one of our ambulances has one right well we hope never have to use the ambulance but we've got to do it we use that all the time so let's take a look at the back side here i don't want to go in yet we'll talk about that in a little bit but what do you got back here why this why the different colors what's going on so this is reflective striping that when headlights especially at night it increases our visibility so during the day it's nice and bright at night when the vehicle's headlights hit it you see it reflect and with the emergency lights we can increase our visibility for safety on those highways is that required by the state or is it not required nfpa requires it on fire trucks okay but uh we uh started doing that in 2006 before other agencies yeah again being very forward thinking it's a good way to keep your people safe on the other side of the truck what do we have some more compartment space again we can get to most of these compartments from the inside uh in this compartment we have all of our splinting gear so we have two kendrick extrication devices heads we have our our hair traction our kendrick traction device nice and compact being that we don't use them that often with no actual ski area they're commonly found on ski slopes we adapted to use a device that ski patrol uses for its compact size so it takes up a very limited amount of space yeah i think one of the other ones that we've seen where the hair traction so that takes a lot more space having a compact thing like that you know really is a good way to go we have sam splints for various ankle and wrist injuries and a unique thing we carry is all of our ambulances have multiple sets of extension straps in 3 6 and 9 and 12 feet okay that we can use for all different kinds of patients additional strapping on a stretcher or a stairchair or to help get those patients up one thing people don't realize is we use them a lot in the winter to help drag people on reeves or other devices and you create more leverage yeah you know i've seen some webbing but using a strap works this is good we have some webbing as well but we found that the seat belts work better because everybody knows how to use them yeah yeah just to see you don't have to worry about tying knots keep extra bunker gear so jackets and helmets for those highway calls or storms readily available right there and then behind there we have various size padded splints okay that if we needed them again you can get to them from the inside gotcha how about below that anything special in there below that we have our what we consider a tool compartment okay so inside of our tool compartment we've made some changes for kovin we keep some bottles to keep two bottles of bleach spray to help disinfect and decontaminate the animals after a call again the less we have to do when we get back to the station we can clean up on the way potentially another call good there's that webbing we were talking about yep we have bottles of road salt that we use in the winter time they help if an animal to get stuck you can salt around the wheels but they're mainly used when we get to a patient's house if they haven't had a chance especially the elderly to shovel their steps yet or walkways in the winter months we put snow shovels in the ambulance and our crews will help quickly shovel what they need to get to that house and then put some salt by the time they get out there's no ice and it makes it that we can get everybody out safe okay you also have some cribbing in there cribbing it can be used on a motor vehicle accident if we get there first to help stabilize but also helps in the winter months if the aimbots start sliding on some ice we do have some pretty big hills okay so we'll use them as parking shocks to help keep the animals from rolling how about snow chains do you carry snow chains or is this uh so this is this ambulance does not have the on spots um we carry manual strap chains that we wrap around the tires the rear tires but the other ambulances have them as backups okay and i notice the flares you have you have a ton of them we keep flares working on a highway you got to make sure you space them out nighttime even daytime on that highway we have plenty of flares you never know when you need them uh even a local accident or if the ammo has a mechanical problem you can cordon off a safe area for the inmates so that tow truck around all right what do we got next we got a couple more cabinets on the outside here go right to our stair chair compartment that also gives us access to the inside for our kits we keep a striker strap tracked stair chair in all five of our ambulances we also have flashlights again for scene safety at night they are the led upgraded version for increased visibility and the stair chair that goes up and down stairs using our track system right correct okay it uh makes it safer and easier for our members to lift patients very cool less lifting one more cabinet what we got in there here's our board compartment our lifting devices so we carry two backboards with straps we carry a scoop device which you can use on uh fractured or broken hips to scoop the patient and get them up uh here we have our reefs again it slides across due to space we have one of two collar bags there's also a collar bag in the splint compartment that you can get to on the inside and we can keep a short board which we use for multiple different uh uses mostly on car accidents where the fire department's extricating the patient we place it as a barrier between the door and the patient so there's no sharp objects or if the tool slips the patient um it'll absorb it and hopefully protect the patient correct now you also have a set of tools here we do we have a set of tools also known as irons when matched together and bulk cutters for those extreme circumstances if we need to get it somewhere before the fire department arrives or any other situation but they're there ready to go if needed all right before we make our way around to the back do us a favor hit that subscribe hit that notification so we can keep bringing you more so izzy before we head to the back and get inside i want to know why are there so many lights on this truck so it's kind of a t-neck tradition back in the 80s up until the 90s we had a man named walter pinchus he was known for his innovation and leadership and he would evaluate the ambulances and find weak spots based on previous accidents or in his time as a police officer where was the weakest part of light on a vehicle and how can we make it better to increase our visibility so obviously we've adapted that and gone a little more so we have extra warning lights up top and uh they help on hills or on scenes where we want to be visible the higher the lighting the more you'll be seen from farther away and we've since adopted to have uh all of the animals have the same front layout of the big blue and red footprint and coming down the road it's very dominant as to what's what's there right i really enjoy that you use you keep all the old lights you don't have all the leds running on this you have some of the old lights even the old vector bar you know that's something that some of us old guys are used to seeing on either cop cars or our emergency vehicles keeping it on a truck is a pretty cool thing to do some of those are pretty great lights to this day but they help keep this truck the way it was yeah all right let's go take a look at the back all right in the back of this this is pretty cool too it's a large truck so hot trying to get up into this can be difficult what do you do about that so our other four trucks and the newer trucks will always have the power loaders that help with a lot of that but all of our animals have an air ride system and when you open the back doors ah makes that lift up just that much lower yep it drops it about four to six inches depending on the incline or level of the road okay and it makes it much easier it used to come up to about there right now it's down there right so i don't have to pick up the whole thing now this one doesn't have the auto load but in your other trucks you do they do so are you thinking of retrofitting this or just leave it as is not at this point we put a power stretcher in that makes it that much easier oh yeah so even though you don't have the power load you have the power structure that's simple all right let's see what you got inside step on in walk us around it so inside we have our uh standard jump kit inside we have our oxygen our pulse oximeter and anything else we would need on a standard call unlike modern day ambulances the oxygen tanks were kept uh right back here in open compartments uh in the newer ambulances they're kept in an interior compartment that closes okay we have our benches as you can see if you did a standard flip up you could see all that equipment that we talked about before okay what are these bar things so these bars are actually pretty cool they don't get used on your everyday call but if we have one of those mass casualty incidents and we had multiple patients even on a standard motor vehicle accident if you have two or three patients we can put two boarded patients on each bench and abort a patient here so what you would do is okay so it's like a stretcher side it's basically a stretcher side and with the seat belt now that uh patient's not gonna roll off your uh your bench you don't see that very often or anything in the newer truck so that's pretty cool you know so that shows some of the history of what we used to do you know taking two and three patients at a time is it was not that uncommon nowadays they like you you know just one patient or they just sit down so all right what else you got in the cabinets so up here we have what we call our action cabinet it's uh basically everything that you'll find in one of our many kits it's how we restock like that cabinet back in our garage so if you need something you can quickly restock it's just extra supplies everything's color coded depending on its use so you have suction supplies are green and oxygen supplies are green yellow is your decontamination stuff blue is your other diagnostic so bp cuffs emesis bags stuff like that red is all of your bandaging and stuff like that so you simply just slide it open oh i need a four by four there's my four by fours uh purell all kinds of other fluids that we'll need masks uh lots of extra ppe and never have enough ppe these days exactly behind that you have a lucas machine yes uh we have four four of our trucks are equipped with lucas devices and and what is a lucas device for those that may not know it's a automated uh cpr compression device so instead of having to do manual compressions uh we're able to place the lucas on a patient and it does uh cpr for us it has many benefits it doesn't tire out crews as much it allows for continuous cpr and effective cpr because the average human will get tired the electronic device does not get tired until it runs out of batteries which we have extras but it allows for safety on the way to the hospital because unlike the other the old days where you had to sit on the bench and lean over a patient in that cpr seat now that lucas device is on the patient and our members can now sit and seatbelt it on the way to the hospital again it's all about safety while you're traveling so not only better for the patient but it's better for your crews it also helps free us up to help the paramedics and any other function that they need okay now behind you i noticed that you got a cabinet that's kind of duct taped off that's not broken you guys did that for a reason yes we had open storage for all of our kits um due to kovid with having the unknown how it spread and decontamination we came up with the idea to tarp them off and seal them so that this way there's less areas for any blood-borne pathogens or anything currently that's airborne to get to other equipment and contaminate it so you're protecting the public you're protecting your staff yes all by taking you know simple steps like that correct there's a lot of that stuff we didn't have to use during covid so it was no need for it to get you know dirty and it was just easier when we came in with the backpack blower with the sanitization stuff that you can just spray and get all the surfaces without getting stuff back there right and even though this is a large truck you know there there's a lot of surface area here so having a backpack sprayer uh and the minimalist that kind of what it's in here because you only got one cabinet on the inside and underneath the seats makes it a whole lot easier to keep correct wow this is an amazing truck the fact that you have let it run for you know 30 plus years it seems like uh is a testament to your guys skill and a testament to the manufacturer that built this truck i heard that you guys do your own maintenance here in in the correct facility we do we do a lot of smaller in-house maintenance to keep costs down so you know tightening screws adjustments stuff like that we have various different vendors that we send some bigger items out to this truck actually is not the original state that it came in in 1989 it's gone through two refurbishments where they took it they stripped it down and they've repainted the outside repainted the inside this is all new upholstery from from 2006. okay okay once again this is an awesome truck we appreciate you opening the doors and letting us take a look at it this is station riggs at heroes next door do us a favor hit that subscribe hit that notification and we'll keep bringing you more huh

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Length: 19min 14sec (1154 seconds)

Published: Sat May 08 2021