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[H3PAC]

Originally Posted by GPan099

Quote from the NYS Driver's manual, chapter 5:

"Personal vehicles driven by volunteer fire fighters responding to alarms are allowed to display blue lights, and those driven by volunteer ambulance or rescue squad members may display green lights. Amber lights on hazard vehicles such as snow plows and tow trucks warn other drivers of possible dangers. Flashing amber lights are also used on rural mail delivery vehicles and school buses to warn approaching traffic of their presence. The vehicles displaying blue, green, or amber lights are not authorized emergency vehicles. Their drivers must obey all traffic laws. While you are not required to yield the right-of-way, you should yield as a courtesy if you can do so safely."

http://www.nydmv.state.ny.us/dmanual...al.htm#col-lgh

Absolutely riduculous. So essentially, your law says that volunteer fire fighters can put a flashing light on their car for their own pleasure and to make them feel important. How insulting. And it makes it very clear to drivers that they are not required to yield. What are your lawmakers smoking? A courtesy? I yield the right-of-way to little old people crossing the street as a courtesy, and they don't even have flashing blue lights on them (except for the occasional old lady with a big blue hairdo).

[whaaaaT]

its different in ny man. Volunteer firemen are everyone and everywhere. They'll try driving around like maniacs. I was at the community college the other day cause a volunteer kid hit some other kid in a cross walk. They act like they can do anything. If there is something big going on the cops and various first responders are there first anyway. If the volunteers dont make it they dont have to. other voluteers get there. Theres volunteers closer to the house. No reason to put drivers at risk. Your only required to make a certain number of calls a year as a volunteer here. You dont need to make them they have people anyway. Plus we have a fire house every like 4 miles its rediculous. And they are like the most expensive fire houses in the world i think 7.5 million dollars for one. We also have more fire engines than NYC here. For some reason our fire houses have to have tiki bars and pools in them and stuff. I hate the volunteer fire departments here. I think we should go to a normal fire department we would pay less probly. Its a joke here on longisland. They abuse our county. People let them pass with their little super cool lights. I do all the time. But then when they drive in the center lanes and run red lights. What are they doing?


here look at this. our fire department has more trucks than nyc and LA combined.

http://business.lihistory.com/firefighters/index.html

[whaaaaT]

make sure you click take the tour of the biggest fire house. Theres a hummer h1 inside with the cage all over it. Its pretty cool. For some reason every fire house has a stump jumper H1 or army 6X6 or something.

[GPan099]

The point of my posts was to note and verify that the laws for colored lights on vehicles vary from state to state, not to raise a debate on the virtue of volunteer FF or the need to yield to them.

As far as NY state laws being "riduculous" or "screwy", you guys are entitled to your opinion just like everybody else. I currently live in an area served by a paid fire department so the issue doesn't really matter to me. Maybe if I move I will care.

[fourfourto]

Last night I saw a few volunteer firemen going to a fire here on long island and they only had blue lights.They did not push there way through the red lights they were driving somewhat normal (they are on the way to a fire).
Some people dont pay attention to the blue lights and many dont to the red that police use.

I always yield to the blue lighted volunteer firemen They might be on the way to your house,If they have some perks at the station good for them.

In Ny the young volunteers get some money towards college also the older ones get a little off there homeowner taxes.

Klints lights do look a lot better then the guys i seen out last night

[whaaaaT]

you get free tuition at suffolk community college. Its all the kids that speed and drive crazy. I'd be doing it to if i was 18 and had a light on my car.

[fourfourto]

When I was 18 I installed a police motorcycle siren in my car (from dad it was in the basement he never found out) .In less than a week a local cop(nice guy) made me take it out on the spot ,he was going to take it but I told them its from my fathers 50,60s era police motorcycle and he let me bring it back home. NYC police family badge works well I still have it
He also said it was a felony to use it on the road.

I wonder where the siren went to.
probobly sold for $1.00 in the garage sale of 1991 when my parents moved.I lost alot of great stuff that day

[K9sH3]

Originally Posted by whaaaaT

here look at this. our fire department has more trucks than nyc and LA combined.

http://business.lihistory.com/firefighters/index.html

WASTED TAX DOLLARS!

[H3PAC]

Originally Posted by K9sH3

WASTED TAX DOLLARS!

One of our local departments just purchased a brand new heavy rescue vehicle using federal homeland security grant money. In the past two years they have performed three "heavy rescues". One was a vehicle extrication requiring a Hurst tool.

In a second vehicle extrication they literally cut a car in half AND removed the roof - Amusing when they could have removed the unfortunate driver through the passenger door without using a single tool.


In their third heavy rescue, they shored up a collapsing structure and used chain saws to cut away a fallen tree. The structure? Some guy's lawn tractor shed.

But I now sleep more soundly knowing that our homeland security tax dollars are protecting me in the event that terrorists target "Cornhole Corners", PA.