Amber Lights

[FFTEX]

Funniest part about that van is if even one of those lights is out he gets a ticket. LOL.

[tinatornado]

Originally Posted by SKYWARN IL-227

There are certain times where the use is allowed or just ignored. If you are helping out at the scene of an accident, most officers don't worry about your lights. Now if you were this guy, they might worry about alien ships trying to land...

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Whoa, that's enough to scare anybody.

[The Weather Warrior]

Many jurisdiction if they don't already have tight regulation are making them tighter and tighter. For many different reason, not limited to impersonators, annoying "wannabees", misuse, governments have been getting more and more complaints. One of the most sticking and persuasive argument is the fact that some rapists have used flashing lights (including amber lights) as a tool to pull over their victims. In many, many city jurisdictions expect to have officers be very suspicious of you if you have lights and are not a 'typical' user or have some sort of permit. I'm sure Illinois is no exception to this. I would be curious as to when latest revision was done to the law text posted.

[edgar spore]

you woke the old man! o.k. here is a web-site you check check, it's run by a guy based in Iowa, it's police posers dot com


also if you get get a hold of stormtracker257, he's a another old fart like myself from the original skywarn forum, he lives closer to you then i do, he might be able to answer your question.

[edgar spore]

hey, buckeye, can you answer this question for me, why does ohio allow there volunteer firefighter to run blue lights, blue is law enforcement , our state is changing the fire vehicles over to the nfpa standard.

[wesleykey]

It's all about assisting the public for me. I don't need lighting.

[KC8TCQ]

Originally Posted by edgar spore

hey, buckeye, can you answer this question for me, why does ohio allow there volunteer firefighter to run blue lights, blue is law enforcement , our state is changing the fire vehicles over to the nfpa standard.

In Ohio Blue is Law Enforcement, Fire use Red, Vollunteers can run red lights in Ohio. The one/ones you saw might have bought their light bars used and never changed the lenses. Or perhaps they are also reserve police officers, we have several in my county that are both law enforcement and vollunteer firefighters.

[edgar spore]

thanks , for the update, Keith,

[FFTEX]

Blue light is volunteer fire and volunteer EMS here in PA. Red light and siren if you are a chief or assistant chief. I have seen some fire police that run red and blue with siren like the cops. I have blue light on my vehicle. I'm volunteer fire but also run as IRP for the ambulance when I am not on duty.