What color lights do you have?

[mikeylikesit]

Christmas lights, headlights, parking lights, stop lights. rail road lights, neon lights gas station light...we have a ton of lights here but very few on my vehicle. my Haro has a code 3 light bar though.

 

[daedalus]

Docter house welcome to the party =] Love that show.

I have never met a Docter house before. However, I enjoy watching Doctor House very much.

 

[daedalus]

Let's see, I've got 4 orange lights on each corner that either flash one side at a time or all four at a time. I've got a set of rear facing red lights that are controlled by a pedal and a switch as well as a set of rear facing white lights that's controlled by the gear shift. In the front of my car I have 2 sets of forward facing white lights that are controlled by a switch both in terms of intensity and one/off. What other lights does one need on their POV?

Awesome setup man! I got the same! I find it usually works great.

 

[CFRBryan347768]

uggh..my state (NY) pisses me off...vollie EMTs can only run green lights, vollie firefighters can only run blue lights, any officer of the squad or CFR's can run red/white lights and a siren, chief and any asst. chief with the fire company can run red/white lights with a siren, cops have red lights to the front and now red and blue to the rear, they want to go front blue too which according to some people would put vollie ff's to green lights...which I know with the amout of money a lot of vollies have spent on lights..none of them would be to happy

True....but unless were hauling a good 25mph over the speed limit the cops assuming its either the sheriffs dept. or town police dept. dont care, if a state trooper sees you your done!

 

[aussieemt1980]

I noticed the POV lighting issue is still running around in circles here, I could make comments, but I wont. I agree with the people who have the standard lights and are sensible.

Anyway, back to the original response for the question:

Here in NSW, Australia:

Ambulance Service of NSW: Red / Blue (red over drivers side)
NSW Police Force (not a service anymore, that way they don't actually have to do anything): Blue / Red (blue over drivers side)
NSW Fire Brigades: Blue / Red
NSW Rural Fire Service (Our vollie ff's): Blue / Red
State Emergency Service (our disaster response service, staffed by combination paid / volunteers and respond to earthquakes, floods, storms, etc): Blue / Red
Volunteer Rescue Association (NSW only): either Red, Red/White or Blue / Red (as a rescue service, they are permitted to have blue/red)
St John Ambulance Australia (volunteer first responders that sit at public events): red only
Fire Services Command Post: Green
Council Rangers / Roads and Traffic Authority heavy vehicle inspectors: Magenta
The agency that I work for: Red / Blue, or other combinations as required for the contract (some sites ask for amber)
Tow trucks, council trucks, just about everyone else that really could care: Amber
I have seen security services with white rotating lightbars, but the need for that has not been established. Trying to be too much like the police services I think.

 

[MAC4NH]

In NJ, all vollies (Fire and EMS) are allowed to run with blue lights in their POV's (with the proper permit). Upper level Fire officers (Chief, Asst. Chief) generally get official, town-owned vehicles. Each volunteer agency is allowed (or was allowed the last I asked which was years ago) 2 red light/siren permits for POV's, usually given to the 2 highest ranking line officers. I was also told by a colleague (but I have not confirmed it with the state) that we are now allowed to add an electric horn (the electronic "air horn" on most sirens) to the blue light setup.

I only have an eighteen year old rotating halogen with a reflector on my dash that gets activated maybe once or twice a year.

BTW, as far as I understand the statute, Fire, EMS and PD are only allowed red lights but many add some blue to their setups. No one seems to mind.

 

[seanm028]

True....but unless were hauling a good 25mph over the speed limit the cops assuming its either the sheriffs dept. or town police dept. dont care, if a state trooper sees you your done!

25 miles over the speed limit? Are you serious?

 

[daedalus]

My state uses red for all emergency vehicles. Our ambulances are outfitted with Whelen strobe lightbars with red and white. PD needs to have red but can also use blue.

 

[KEVD18]

True....but unless were hauling a good 25mph over the speed limit the cops assuming its either the sheriffs dept. or town police dept. dont care, if a state trooper sees you your done!

this is why lights/sirens and unprofessional whackers dont mix.

 

[JPINFV]

True....but unless were hauling a good 25mph over the speed limit the cops assuming its either the sheriffs dept. or town police dept. dont care, if a state trooper sees you your done!

That's why you don't speed anyplace where you couldn't get away with it when driving normally. Now if you could drive at that speed normally, you don't need lights on your POV.

 

[himynameismj]

In New Jersey, it is a blue light. It can't be a bar, only a dashboard or magnetized roof light. However, no one follows that rule. On the bright side, my department buys the one we want for us.

 

[EMTGUY12]

here in iowa volley EMTS can have a "white flashing light" meaning any clear or white, rotating, flashing or strobe light used for identification purposes only. volley FF can have have blue added on to the permit. in my pov (2000 crown vic police interceptor) i have a full light bar, rear direction stick lightbar, and wig-wags.

 

[MRE]

In Massachusetts:

Amber: General warning, anybody can use em as far as I can tell, usually seen on tow trucks, plow trucks and construction equipment.

Blue: LEO's

Green: Forrest Service????? Not really sure about that one

Red: FFs/EMT's w/ special red light permit, not sure if you can use a siren. I just have an electronic air horn, which moves people pretty good. Technically anybody can have one of those too.

 

[EMTSteve]

Here in northern California our ambulances have Red/Clear/Strobes front and rear.

 

[reaper]

I have white ones all over. They come in 60w,75w and 100w. I normally have 60w. You can buy them in four packs, pretty cheap!!!!!!

 

[zacdav89]

Colorado law states that volunteer firefighter can use red lights with sirens, and EMS can use red with the addition of white, official emergency apparatus can use any combination of red white and blue, with green reserved for command and hazmat, and that everything excluding police must have red as its main color.
Also in Colorado, emergency responders official and volunteer can not exceed 10mph over the posted speed limit; the state patrol here has issued tickets for exceeding this limit.

 

[Ridryder911]

I have white ones all over. They come in 60w,75w and 100w. I normally have 60w. You can buy them in four packs, pretty cheap!!!!!!

You too?.. I now have those swirly kind... yeah I am into green living....(cough)

R/r 911

 

[daedalus]

F***ing tree hugger

:angry:

hehe

 

[stupie680]

In NJ its blue for ems and fd and red for cops ems officers and fd chiefs.

 

[ILemt]

Illinois is wierd.
You see Chicago and the rest of the state north of I-80 like to pretend that they are another state entirely and our current Gov. is doing everything in his power to make that happen. Really ruins it for the rest of us.
That said here are the rules for IL South of I-80:

Fire Trucks: Red/White/Amber (though many depts also use blue)
Police: Blue/Red with Amber Traffic Sticks in rear
Ambulance: Red/White/Blue

Vollies of any sort (FF/EMS/ESDA/etc): Blue or Blue/White
no siren

Funeral: they get nothing that I know of, because they have a PD escort

Amber: General Caution - Construction, Tow Truck, Cable guy etc...

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North of I-80 Blue is reserved for PD so Vollies are stuck with amber and ambulances run only red/white
(from what I've heard)