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[BritishArmyReserveCadets]

West Midlands Police is the 2nd BIGGEST in the UK, why would they need backup, and besides couldnt they have called on a more "local" force, like West Mercia or North Wales Police

[Kookas]

s'il vous plait. Merci.

I am going to have more progress soon regarding the mod. The fire engine is still in progress, still have to create the prototypes necessary for putting on the children and put the lights on.

[BritishArmyReserveCadets]

Just found out why there was London Police Vans

[Sirius7dk]

Just found out why there was London Police Vans

Why was that then?

[Kookas]

No, if you want to find out, PM him. Don't derail my thread to talk about why Met had vans in Dudley, thank you...

[Kookas]

Thanks for the offer! I have one thing, do you know how the dispatcher decides when to send the ambulance with lights and when not to? Are they sent on blues and twos when the case is deemed to be potentially life-threatening? I am planning to have the ambulance dispatcher able to send ambulances to scenes without lights and sirens. I'd have to make some calls that don't need lights and sirens though, like a special fall, because in EM4, all medical events seem to involve damaged/interrupted blood flow, so in other words, they bleed away their life over time, even if it's just a fall, so you always need lights or sirens or you might mess it up. For example, an event where someone has fallen, but they aren't bleeding, just a fractured leg or something, so their life isn't slowly going away - they don't need lights and sirens.

[BritishArmyReserveCadets]

They use "Code" eg,


Code 1 = Minor/Non Emergency - No Lights and Sirens

Code 2 = Minor/Serious Injury - No Sirens, Lights on

Code 3 = Serious/Life Threatening Injury - Lights and Sirens on

[BritishArmyReserveCadets]

WMPS Multiple Suspect Lorry


Just been searching on net, turn out West Midlands Police have a Large Van to carry multiple suspects


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Have you found out what it says on the side of the Fire Trucks?


I have found a good image of the side

West Midlands Fire Engine Side Writing

[Kookas]

Yeah, I know about those, I remember seeing one a while back being escorted by some police bikes and cars. Prisoner transport vans

Also I know what fire engines say on the sides:
- HFRA Fire Safety Check advert
- Car safety - "wear your seatbelt"
- Car safety - "kill your speed, not yourself"

Also, fire engines have CCTV on them?

And about the ambulance system, that's very weird... I knew low priority received ambulances without lights and sirens, and then more severe got lights and sirens, but only lights??

Anyway, Renault Espace has been started.

[Forensics]

The ambulance service don't just use sirens and lights depending on how how serious the injury is, they do on the traffic.
For example in the middle of the night, when there is no traffic and they are responding to a heart attack they won't use sirens.

[BritishArmyReserveCadets]

The fire engines do have CCTV Fitted on them, there a camera's around the firengine on eachside, the one on the front is fitted to the windscreen, the TV for the camera's is either on the SATNAV Screen or on a seperate screen next to it

[scrivs]

Kookas did you recieve my e-mail with the advert pictures ?

Regarding the CCTV cameras on fire engines in west mids, a select few who've had trouble in the past have the cameras fitted on the dash with a screen (pic attached), off the top of my head i can think of Erdington, Ward End, Canley, Foleshill, Highgate, Kings Norton, Ladywood, West Brom and Dudley carry them.

Knowing little about WMAS, i do know a bit on the mobilising side

Cat A - is what they call a 'hot response' meaning a life threatening call, difficulty breathing, chest pains etc..

Cat B - would still be an emergency but not that life threatening, i.e RTC persons trapped, call by fire to house fire persons reported

Cat C - low level emergency I believe. I also believe they have cat D calls too.

With a Cat A you'll get a paramedic car/bike. Also in some parts of the West Mids there are community first responders. Not sure whats its like around the rest of West Mids but where I live they get given yellow alfa's with green markings (no blues), and they'll get called to Cat A calls only within 8 minutes of their location if the nearest available vehicle is further away than 8 mins.

Something else I had a think of, for each fire engine in WMFS they have Mobile Data Terminals (MDT's) which enable the truck to recieve fire calls and print off the details whilst out and about to save having to pass the details by radio. And to save on keep calling up on the radio the functions of mobile incident, in attendance, mobile available, closing home station are available for incidents by means of a touch screen computer to update the status. Also the function of sending stop messages for incidents using the MDT, would that be something that would be possible?.

Also whilst at jobs, a series of informative messages must be sent (every 20 minutes i believe) giving an update on each job, something that would be kool to do is maybe a function to type an informative message into the game? something like that?

Just an idea

[Kookas]

About the informative messages, I don't know how possible that is. Thanks for the CCTV/WMAS info, though. I will use that to name the medical calls (in the language files).

Espace in Progress:



Also sorry for slow progress, things should return to normal progress rate next week.

[scrivs]

Was playing the Hamburg mod last night, and the use of the Positive Pressure Ventilation fans (PPV's) for ventilating a building of smoke makes the game that little bit more real, and the use of Light portable pumps carried on the PRL's makes it easier to fight fires where the hose lines can't reach. Would this be a possible function in the game ?

[Kookas]

It may be possible to make it so you can attach hoses into the water, and that would be connected to a pump, which hoses can then connect to. The method I have in mind is to manually create a "scripted polygon" - basically a set of vector values which define the area of a river or lake on the map which I want to use hoses with. I will see what I can do about it

[dyson20]

you havent got any updates have you been a while naw

[Kookas]

I can't be bothered to post updates, still working on it though