FireFighterNation

USFA has initiated a study of emergency vehicle markings, lighting and design to recommend best practices for increased visibility to approaching motorists.

When a reader writes to Nozzlehead, explaining that he feels that we have too many warning lights on fire apparatus, Nozzlehead offers him a piece of his mind, arguing that in many cases, there’s hardly such a thing as “too many lights.” In this second installment, Nozzlehead looks at the science behind apparatus warning lights.

When a reader writes to Nozzlehead, explaining that he feels that we have too many warning lights on fire apparatus, Nozzlehead offers him a piece of his mind, arguing that there’s hardly such a thing as “too many lights” when it comes to responding but that there can be too many lights when apparatus are stationary and simply need to convey caution to passing motorists.