When Have to get There Now

[Kilted13]

This has been and can be discussed ad nauseum, but lights and sirens are for EMERGENCIES http://www.compfused.com/directlink/4422/

[Richard B the EMT]

I noted in the video that this guy has a Police ID in the window. From my friends in the NYPD Highway Patrol, I am advised that even police officers who need lights and sirens installed in their personal vehicles have to get special permission from the department to do so.

If a member of a volunteer ambulance service wants to install l&s in their personal vehicle, the vehicle has to be certified by the NY State DoH as an "Ambulance Emergency Service Vehicle", with an accompanying letter of authorization from the chief or president of the vollie ambulance agency, and a specific equipment list of minimum supplies/equipment that have to be carried onboard (the rules might have changed over the last 10 years, when I was so authorized, with my Toyota wagon, as a "First Responder" unit).

Even with the authorization, as mentioned in several other strings, I got ticketed for "Unauthorized Red Light", and had to go to court, successfully fighting the charge. Unauthorized Red Light is considered a Felony.