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In Chile, ambulance and police sirens are electric american sirens and they carry red lights.

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Fire Dept. sirens and lights vary from firetruck to firetruck, as each station decides which sirens to use in their firetrucks, some stations use french or german horns, electrical american sirens or american q-sirens, sometimes even all toguether in one single firetruck!, you figure the noise a single firetruck can make in here. (I totally disapprove this, i understand we need to move traffic, but 3 sirens on a single firetruck is too much.)

In the following videos you can see the mix of sirens and firetrucks and ambulances used in the city of Santiago, all these units are being dispatched to the same call.

I think someone should regulate the use of sirens and lights in Chile's cities and have a standard siren sound and a standard light color for emergency vehicles, i think blue is perfect because red isn't very different from car's backlights at night.

IMO emergency vehicles should turn off their sirens if there isn't much traffic.

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European emergency sirens sound better IMO.

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=695274

BTW,nice videos Xpressway. Firemen from Chile need some new equipment.Cars looks nice but seems to be very old.

Belgian ambulance siren:

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Police:

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Italy

POLICE

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Ambulances and policecars

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CARABINIERI

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FIRE BRIGADES

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AMBULANCES

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Interesting virtual tour on a Carabinieri's car http://www.carabinieri.it/Internet/imagestore/Multimedia/Gazzella/Gazzella.htm

Poland

Fire Brigades
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Ambulances
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Police (it's police chase, and it's one of most popular movie in polish YouTube :) )
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don' t really like the italian Emergency Vehicle Sirens noise

like the London "style"

I had no idea the Q was used outside of the America. For the those not familiar. the Q is the mechanical siren that is used on most U.S fire engines, it really gives them a distinctive sound compared to other emergency vehicles which have long gone electronic. IMO there is not there no better sounding siren than the q.

Parade of various fire/ems vehicles

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Enroute to an emergency

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don' t really like the italian Emergency Vehicle Sirens noise

like the London "style"

How does London style sounds like?

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Dutch Ambulance (Groningen Province) with a London style sirene. 'wail-sound'

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Dutch Ambulance (Zeeland Province) 'threehorn sound'
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Amsterdam Ambulance 'threehorn sound'
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Dutch Ambulancemotor 'twohorn sound'
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As far as I know, many Londoner emergency vehicles have American "wail" sirens.

I think you have right that the Brittish 'wail' originality derived from the US.

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Ambulance and rescue units

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Police:
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This thread has already been posted 5 times...... ;)

Some London firetrucks used to have two-tone "nee-nah" airhorns. Do these still exist or have they been completely replaced by electronic sirens?

here I got something from Norway:
first of all: norwegian emergency verhicles got blue lights, airport firetrucks additional one yellow flashing light. the sirens are mostly wail, yelp and Martinshorn
first 2 fire trucks:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JO25iR3XOHA

and here I got an ambulance, without siren but nice lights; it's the standard lights on norwegian ambulances
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrTCKA_2WxA

Announcing the Grand Unified Police and Emergency Response Thread (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=909364)! This thread was created in order to hopefully quit with at least half a dozen similar threads scattered across the site and put it all in one thread.

This thread has already been posted 5 times...... ;)http://www.youvoid.info/img/X/P.jpghttp://www.youvoid.info/img/L/P.jpg

but it's still cool!