Everyone Needs Emergency Vehicle Lights

The sights of warning lights, and the sounds of sirens

, are primarily associated with police vehicles, ambulances, and blood red fire trucks. While it is true that these are the vehicles that need emergency vehicle lights the most, its usage is definitely not restricted to the trio. These lights are sported by a wide cross section of people involved in public service activities, as well as in private pursuits.

While emergency vehicle lights are mandatory on fire engines, firefighting is done also by volunteer firefighters as by official fire service men. Volunteer firefighters are allowed to use warning lights on their vehicles when they are proceeding in response to a fire emergency. However, these warning lights may not always be the conventional red lights used by regular fire trucks.

The emergency vehicle lights used by volunteer firefighters may sometimes be a courtesy light. A courtesy light is something that just conveys to the other vehicles on the road to consider letting the volunteer's vehicle to go faster. Sporting a courtesy light does not give the user the right to proceed at breakneck speed, or to flout traffic rules. As the name of the light indicates, if the other drivers on the street are courteous, the one using a courtesy light will be able to proceed faster.

Where the emergency vehicle lights are courtesy lights, the color may be green or blue. Those using a courtesy light are also not generally allowed to use a siren. However, some states allow volunteer firefighters to use red lights that have all the privileges of regular emergency vehicle lights and they may also be allowed the use of a siren. In yet other places the using of courtesy lights and full emergency vehicle lights will be decided by the level of the emergency to which the volunteer is responding.

Similarly, while the right of ambulances to use emergency vehicle lights is almost universal, the right of voluntary emergency medical service personnel to use it is decided by the state in which they operate. When a doctor is proceeding in response to a medical emergency, he is allowed to use an emergency light even on his private vehicle in some cases. Emergency medical technicians, or EMTs, are mostly allowed to use courtesy lights.

Practically everyone has a right to use emergency vehicle lights on a parked vehicle. Delivery trucks, or construction vehicles, or private vehicles which are parked or moving through a place which is neither a marked street nor a parking lot, have to sport emergency vehicle lights to make themselves visible to everyone moving around in those areas which may include other vehicles, pedestrians, or even animals.

Workers involved in rescue operations, and towing trucks use emergency vehicle lights, which may be courtesy lights or regular emergency lights. A dump truck used for shifting loose material will invariably use emergency vehicle lights even during daytime because collision risks are more with such vehicles. Emergency vehicle lights on a dump truck with a snowplough mounted on it is a must because snow removal periods are always connected with low visibility, not to speak of whiteouts and similar situations.

by: Sunil Punjabi

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