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In Wisconsin emergency light allows volunteer firefighters and/or emergency medical responders to use red or red/white lighting on their personal vehicles, only when responding to an emergency and/or the fire hall, not returning. No other vehicles in Wisconsin are permitted to use red and blue police lights on department or personal vehicles.
In Canada, firefighters in Ontario, Alberta, and Quebec may use green flashing lights in their personal vehicles. The green lights do not provide any exemptions from road rules, but they are intended to ask the right of way from other road users. [11] [12] [13]
The use of flashing lights and sirens is colloquially known as blues and twos, which refers to the blue lights and the two-tone siren once commonplace (although most sirens now use a range of tones). In the UK, only blue lights are used to denote emergency vehicles (although other colours may be used as sidelights, stop indicators, etc.).
A volunteer firefighter from Sugar Hill responding to a scene in their personal vehicle equipped with emergency lights and a siren. Some volunteer fire departments allow the use of courtesy lights or emergency lights and sirens by their members.
Here’s how long you should wait to know if a light may be malfunctioning.
An ambulance with two red revolving lights mounted above two flashing red lights, with two speakers between for the vehicle's electronic siren.Also seen are two antennae; the one seen between the two speakers is for a two-way radio, while the one seen in front of the flashing light on the left is probably for the vehicle's conventional AM/FM radio.