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- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 13:42:51 -0500
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- From: AIRBORNE THE FIREMAN IS BACK <CDUNBAR@UNTVAX.BITNET>
- Subject: Re: Hazard Lights on Emergency Vehicles
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- Our FD uses similar procdures when we arrive at a scene. Ya'all read a
- description on the lights on our apparatus on a previous post of the same
- title, so I won't bore ya'all with a re-description =).
-
- We generally respond in rural, suburban subdivisions, or major roadway areas.
- We have different procedures, as far as which lights to have on or off,
- depending on what kind of scene we are at, or if we are training.
-
- When we arrive at a house fire or other fire within a subdivision, we generally
- keep on only the rear red bubblegum machines (rear warning lights) and our
- front halogen amber flashers (bright as highbeams!) If we go out to shuttle
- water, we use full lights (and sirens). We follow this general procedure both
- during the day and at night.
-
- At traffic incidents or incidents on the side of a major highway, we use full
- lights during the day and half of our strobes and rear warning lights during
- the night. If we respond to an incident on or near a country road during the
- day or at night, we use full lights. Heavy traffic areas on major highways,
- we use half lights during the day and amber front flashers and read warning
- lights at night. Very low traffic but high visibility areas on the
- highway day or night, we use full lights. During apparatus training, we use
- front amber flashers and rear warning lights.
-
- Our department has not, to my knowledge, has not had an incident where
- drunk drivers hae been "attracted" to our lights, nor, as far as I know,
- have we had incidents where motorists have been blinded and subsequently have
- smashed into something. While cutting down lights at an incident is a good
- idea, our main motivation for cutting most of the lights is that extended
- use of these flashers could burn them out. $3,000.00 lightbars are expensive,
- so we want to keep them as long as possible =).
-
- Christophe
-