Red & Blues reinstalled :)

[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

[whaaaaT]

nice!

[Klint]

Well I guess you guys all have valid points. There are alot of people that do not know how to drive I will be the first to admit sometimes I do get in a hurry to house fires when people are trapped or a wreck / car fire where people are trapped. But I do not drive like an idiot, I do not blow red lights or stop signs. I have been known to drive fast and have got in trouble a few times.. Then again I was driving our Fast Attack fire truck down the interstate a few weeks ago and they clocked me at 95MPH and didn't like that because Fire Trucks don't stop very quick. The truck has 30 Gal of foam and 300 Gal of water. Side note water weights 8.256Lb's per Gal.. The only reason I didn't get in trouble for that is because in that truck the speed od. doesn't work it was showing 75 which is just fine.

I have been doing this for a long time and I really do not see very many people saying I WANT TO RUN INTO A 800DEG. HOUSE AND PUT IT OUT! If you don't have us "volunteer?s" who is going to put out your house? the city? I think not! Think about that next time you see someone that's a volunteer, we risk our life, we pay for our gas and do not get paid a dime. The reason I do it is because I love to help people. I love when someone comes up and says thank you because you just saved there house, pet, or child from the fire. People look down on us because we aren?t paid fire fighters, but to be honest I have went to more fires than more than 2/3?s of the paid city firefighters. I a bachelors of science degree, and more than 9 years of experience in fire fighting. What I am trying to say I am not just some hot headed red neck that wants to play with that there water gun. Most all of us on my dept have degree?s and have all been to fire school an EMT and HazMat certifications.

Just alittle side note I have been to over 300 House fires, put out around 1000?s of Acre?s of grass and brush fires and more wrecks that I can count. Again thank your local fire dept when you get a chance!