Emergency lights on Personal vehicles

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Permalink Reply by Engineco913 on August 26, 2007 at 9:45am

Here in Rhode Island we can't use a blue light. If you have the Warning light permit class, your allowed a red light. Mines a split lens red/white strobe combo dashmaster. It does make it faster to respond, but your still liable to follow all traffic laws.

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Permalink Reply by Terry Lambert on August 26, 2007 at 9:51am

In Virginia, you can have red/white in front, or just red, and in the back red/amber.

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Permalink Reply by John Mc. on August 26, 2007 at 10:04am

In New Jersey volunteers can have blue lights mounted anywhere on the truck. The rule is a mini bar light or only 2 others, but a lot of guys have full bar lights deck lights, grill lights(pretty much glowing blue but as long as you use them for emergency situations police allow it). My fire department uses them but you need to get a blue light permit from the Chief and need to buy your own which isn't a problem.

I personally use a mini bar light with blue filters and i love it because it cuts response time in half but you still need to obey the law or the police can pull you over and take away your blue lights and your permit. I'll have a pic on here soon of my POV with the bar light.

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Permalink Reply by GelorupRookie on August 26, 2007 at 10:08am

COOL CAN'T WAIT FOR THE PIC

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Permalink Reply by Rescue Engine 2923 on August 26, 2007 at 10:54am

John Mc. put the nail on the head as I am a Jersey firefighter myself. As long as you obey all traffic laws, you should be fine. Hence there are some emergency personnel who look like the "Blue Comet" whilst driving at 70 mph to the station for a b/s call. Im not one of them but in my 98' Explorer I have a Federal Signal Highlighter Roof light, Dual Talon Blue/Blue LED dash light and a 6 head 120 watt strobe kit.

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Permalink Reply by Engineco913 on August 26, 2007 at 10:57am

See thats not bad. It is the people with their little ford rangers with a full 12 strobe light bar on front, back window LED's tool box lights and a giant arrow stick that give the normal folks a bad rap. You don't need to look like your from the movie ET to get the point across that your a firefighter and going to a call, just a good visual for motorists to see and move out of the way.

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Permalink Reply by John Mc. on August 26, 2007 at 11:07am

heres my jeep. little blue light and it gets the job done

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Permalink Reply by GelorupRookie on August 26, 2007 at 7:14pm

Nice and simple I like it mate...

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Permalink Reply by Engineco913 on August 26, 2007 at 11:11am

Thats understandable. We have some bad corners here, was thinking of grabbing a small LED for the rear window for when I am on scene.

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Permalink Reply by Jon Petrencsik on October 30, 2007 at 3:26pm

i'm a FF/EMT in PA and i run a blue code 3 beacon on my roof and blue mini phantom behind my mirror i did have a dual blue strobe on my dash but i got pulled over for that idk why b cuz i looked up the emergency lights code for PA and it said you can have 2 blue lights as long as 1 is 360 degrees i dont know what everyones feeling is on this matter but i think the officer just had nothing better to do

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Permalink Reply by John Mc. on August 26, 2007 at 11:20am

do the rear lights work good while responding? because i live a good ways away and sometimes i respond in my POV. my bar light can be seen from behind but i was thinking abut getting a rear rotary light also or one of the mini Phantom LED lights for the rear window so if i am on scene again its easier to see my car. what do you guys think?

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Permalink Reply by John Mc. on August 26, 2007 at 11:49am

thats insane. and I'm pretty sure you know the feeling over there when people do see you(even in a emergency vehicle) how they refuse to yield or they just stop in the middle of an intersection when they see the lights and just sit there blocking the road

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