Lights/Sirens on Freeways?

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We don't run hot with a patient usually. Only to the scene. Dispatch can't and shouldn't diagnose. Heck, send us to a breathing difficulty and they've been gone for a day or so----wow!! Guess they were right? Huh?

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The longer you spend in EMS, the more you will understand that NOTHING should be left to the "discretion" of 18 year olds with 120 hours of night school.

Ah. Now here are the benefits of not working in the US. To drive in Israel you need to be 21, have had your driver's license for 4 years, and take and pass a course specifically for ambulance driving...

Which means that I won't be able to drive in this country for a while, but also has the added benefit of making me actually feel safe (most of the time) when my driver is taking the ambulance over barriers and sidewalks...

But to the freeway question. Here, when the call is classified as "urgent" (no 1, 2, or 3, just urgent or non-urgent) lights go on automatically and sirens are used as needed to clear traffic and alert people that we are breaking various traffic laws so they should be aware, even on the highways. When things get backed up it is very easy to clear them with the use of a siren and an air horn...