South San Francisco Fire Department Rescue Ambulance

[peztezfez]

Is there actually ANY law or rule in the USA concerning the color of the light bars? Here in Germany the lights of an emergency vehicle (Fire Dept., Police, Ambulance...) have to be BLUE.

[villageway124]

I'm sure there are laws, but i believe they vary from state to state, in California though, it is more common to see police units with blue lights and it is not as common to see ambulance and fire vehicles with blue lights, they usually have red with yellow lights

[GreenGreenMauvePink]

Yes, as villageway says, it varies from state to state. Some states do allow blue on fire and rescue vehicales. Others do not. California, to my knowledge, does not. Also, state law requires one of the lights to be steady burning red (no blink, no stobe, no sweep, etc.).

[knpdyeballarice]

@peztezfez when driving lights and sirens it is called "code 3" code 3 is defined by a constant forward facing red latern visible up to 300 feet (or yards i forget, need to look at the book again) the sirens are just bells and whistles. technically drivers are supposed to yield to the emergency vehicles with just the lights on, the sirens are just the bells and whistles. that's for the fire department/ambulance side of things. are far as police I don't know what their "code 3" regulations are.

[paraawesome]

@peztezfez yessir. In the United States of America, all fire engines and amublances have red lights, the police have blue lights, and public works/contruction has yellow/orange.

[peztezfez]

@paraawesome So according to what you have written this ambulance is a public construction vehicule, since it has yellow lights ;-)

[paraawesome]

@peztezfez sortof. The yellow lights are "spacers" (what some call them) and they spread out blinking to show people to spread out of the way of the ambulance. Also theres a lot of red lights in there, cameras cant pick them up sometines

[FirefighterEmt4Life]

nice horn!!!