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INDY72

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Red/Green and Red/Blue on Fire/EMS rigs:

One reason for doing this is that multiple colors attract more attention than just one color on flashers/strobes/lightbars. Green and Blue are both very very visible, and usually not confused with say a wrecker that runs straight Amber. This is especially true with today's LED lighting systems. In fact, with LED's, its brighter the farther away you are from it up to a point, unlike the older halogen systems. In IN, fire/ems/rescue are allowed to run clear/red combinations in front/side facing locations, and may run red/clear/green/blue/amber in almost any combination on rearward locations. The only lockdown on color combos is with LEA's. They MUST run red/blue per State Law. And of course the fluorescent striping tape is available from many outlets. The top 2 colors for high visibility are yellow/white alternatiing, and green/white alternating. Preferably in diagonal striping/dashing...

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I have also noticed the The City of Chicago Fire Department runs Red and Green all all of the fire department responce units.*Chicago Fire NBC*
 

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Green flashing, oscillating, lights on the right side of illinois fire vehicles indicate that command personnel are present at the scene. ;)

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City of Indianapolis (IFD) along with Pike, Wayne twps are still running red on top of all fire vehicles,The other counties including Hancock,Hendricks,Morgan,and Shelby are running red lights. Boone County and The City of Carmel in Hamilton County are the only departments I am aware of that are running red and blue lights on there vehicles. Understand that starting Jan 1,2013 a new law will be on the books in Indiana.This will allow all volunteer fire fighters to use red lights and a siren on their pov's.Law was re-written becuase the general driving public does not know what a flashing blue light means in Indiana. The law will save lives and will allow all volunteers to assist the public more quickly and will allow them to get to a scene where they are needed.
 

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About bloody time lol! Back in my Vollee days if we had not been able to run lights/sirens in our vehicles, we would never get to the FD, much less the scene in time to do anything but roast wieners and marshmallows. Yes a few of us went overboard with every kind of flashing whooping item we could install, but at least citizens knew to yield to the right please lol.... T

(Most I ever installed in my pov was: Front/Rear wig-wgs, two rear deck blasters, a single front dash strobe w mirror backing, and a Street Thunder siren. Thats all I needed)
 

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The red light change, do you have a link or something to read on this? Our fire chief has said nothing of this and I haven't been able to find anything on this.
 

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Green lights on the top of command vehicles desgnates command. Chicago green lights are a tradtion.
 

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Thank You FFPM 571 and gewecke for your infomation.on Chicago Fire Departments green lights. In Indiana a green light on a pov is a EMT or a Paramedic on a call.
 

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Blue only signifies volunteer fire. Red and blue is law enforcement. Red only is fire and EMS. Red and white is also fire EMS. Green as mentioned is volunteer or paid EMS in private vehicle responding to an emergency.
 

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Understand that starting Jan 1,2013 a new law will be on the books in Indiana.This will allow all volunteer fire fighters to use red lights and a siren on their pov's.

Source? The only bill involving red/blues and sirens in the General Assembly was dealing with funeral escorts. I call false on this.

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Blue only signifies volunteer fire. Red and blue is law enforcement. Red only is fire and EMS. Red and white is also fire EMS. Green as mentioned is volunteer or paid EMS in private vehicle responding to an emergency.

This was the old way there are new laws now and changes coming. The other day I saw Carmel Fire looked like they came from Station 45 on a run going north on College Ave and 111th with RED and BLUE on the back. Also have seen Red and Amber on a lot of Fire Trucks as well.
 

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I'd love someone to post these new laws. Only seeing the funeral escort law in the books.

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Exactly, as I stated originally the current statutes allow for red, or red/white on front/top of equipment, and any combination of red/white/green/blue/amber on rear. POV must be blue, though that is changing as mentioned. Just remember folks, if you see them red/blue/green/amber flashing lights, please yield so we can get to trouble sooner. I'd hate for it to be you we are coming to help and traffic slow us down and you end up riding in a vehicle with purple flashers.
 

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I'm surprised the IVFA hasn't posted any pending changes/updates to their website about the red light/siren in POV changes. It would be good if the green light law was updated to allow green dashlights or LED interior lights instead of the archaic "must be a solid green dome light visible on the roof only". One of the placed I have worked, I was told one ambulance had a blue lens on the rear and the state district EMS coordinator told them to remove it or the unit could not be licensed.
 

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I dont think I have ever seen purple...

Purple is the standard color for bereavement. Funeral homes use purple lights on their hearses for processions and most departments with a LODD cover the lightbars with purple draping or black draping for funerals.
 

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Purple: Funeral Vehicle..... There are a lot of the funeral homes that now have purple LED flashers on the limos and hearses, as well as the motorcycles. The older ones run the old halogen bubbles.
 
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Other good info

IC 36-8-12-11
Blue lights on private vehicles; authorization; violations
Sec. 11. (a) Members of volunteer fire departments may display blue lights on their privately owned vehicles while en route to scenes of emergencies or to the fire station in the line of duty subject to the following conditions:
(1) A light must have a light source of at least thirty-five (35) watts.
(2) All lights must be placed on the:
(A) top of the vehicle;
(B) dashboard inside a vehicle, shielded to prevent distracting the driver; or
(C) front of the vehicle upon the bumper or at bumper level.
(3) No more than four (4) blue light assemblies may be displayed on one (1) vehicle, and each blue light assembly must be of the flashing or revolving type.
(4) A blue light assembly may contain multiple bulbs.
(5) A blue light may not be a part of the regular head lamps displayed on the vehicles. Alternately flashing head lamps may be used as a supplemental warning device. Strobe lights or flashers may be installed into the light fixtures on the vehicle other than the alternating head lamps. The strobe lights or flashers may be either white or blue, with the exception of red to the rear.
(b) In order for a volunteer firefighter to display a blue light on a vehicle, the volunteer firefighter must secure a written permit from the chief of the volunteer fire department to use the blue light and must carry the permit at all times when the blue light is displayed.
(c) A person who is not a member of a volunteer fire department

may not display an illuminated blue light on a vehicle.
(d) A permittee of the owner of a vehicle lawfully equipped with a blue light may operate the vehicle only if the blue light is not illuminated.
(e) A person who violates subsection (a), (b), (c), or (d) commits a Class C infraction. If the violator is a member of a volunteer fire department, the chief of the department shall discipline the violator under fire department rules and regulations.
(f) This section does not grant a vehicle displaying blue lights the right-of-way under IC 9-21-8-35 or exemption from traffic rules under IC 9-21-1-8. A driver of a vehicle displaying a blue light shall obey all traffic rules.
 
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