On Wed, 1 Feb 2006 16:25:55 -0500, Christopher Thompson wrote:

"Dave Hinz" wrote in message
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Eh...depends. In Wisconsin, if you've got the lights and siren, and
if they're both _on_, you _are_ an emergency vehicle, by definition.

the question then becomes are you an authorzed emergency vehicle in valid
emergency operation.

Well, of course. Misuse of that sort of thing is well past "bad idea",
well into "you get what you deserve".

i dont care where you are you cant run like your going
to a call if your going after pizza, even if your in the pumper.

Yup. New guys sometimes need to be reminded of that, and the
"reasonable and prudent" clause as well. It's neither reasonable nor
prudent, for example, to go 70 through town past the grade school,
lights & siren or no; POV, or truck, or ambo.

After the first time or two they either mellow, or they don't get to
drive emergency vehicles.


thus the reason for the emergency permit required in the state of Georgia.

Here we need a letter from the chief, if a POV is being used with
lights/siren.