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Permalink Reply by christopher park on January 20, 2009 at 8:42pm

my understanding is that your pov is inspected and turned into the bmv. you are required to put the sticker along with the numbers they give you on another sticker. that registers your pov as an energancy vehical. but you must follow all traffic laws. from what i understand you my go 10 over the speed limit. if you run lights you must run a siren.

Permalink Reply by Fire Fighter 1713 on January 20, 2009 at 8:55pm

How often do you see a state police or S.O. break t he laws just to get home earlier and not get in trouble for it. (For one they are better than everyone else. ) my honest opinon. If your personal vechile has red lights and siren, from my understanding it is now an emergency vechile for your county or city.

Best bet is to get an SOP (standard operating procedure) for your department on the uses of red lights and siren.

Permalink Reply by steve 593 on February 17, 2009 at 7:38pm

i think the sheriff was wrong for doing that what if his house was on fire. would he pull him over if all the trucks were gone to that

Permalink Reply by Barbara Nelson on February 18, 2009 at 12:45am

True that, I was relay pumping from tenders to the fire attack engine and the sheriff comes to me and tells me to move my engine so he can pull ahead and turn around (we were on a narrow 2 lane gravel road) Needless to say I informed him that there was no way I was going to move my engine. He could just back out.

Permalink Reply by Shareef Abdu Nur on February 20, 2009 at 10:57am

I am not a volunteer and perhaps I do not fully understand, but in my own personal opinion, members should never run lights and sirens to get to the Firehouse, either in POV's or apparatus. If you have the call volume, than you should opt for staffing your firehouse. The number of accidents involving members in POV's speaks for itself.

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