POV Emergency Lights
 

Anyone run POV emergency lights for FD or EMS? Let me know what you have. Looking for ideas for my setup.

It'd be interesting to see emergency lights on a Speed haha. Definitely a car that will get you to the scene quickly!

If people move out of the way fast enough. Some people won't move if a 3/4 Ton with a full bar and siren is behind them, I wonder how they would react to a little car. Least you can pass quickly.


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soooo you're saying there's a better option then me just putting my phone's flashlight on strobe and holding it out the window?

I have a dash light and four light heads from my truck, I just never got around to installing them in my speed.

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Very true. It is pretty difficult to get people to move out of the way even with a 44,000 lb engine riding their ass and giving them an earful of air horn. People are so dumb. If it was their emergency they would want other cars to move out of the way.

Here in NY, you don't have to move over for a POV with blue lights, it's just a courteously. By law you have to move over for red lights and sirens.

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This is a quick vid of what I had in my Nissan Frontier.

Are blue lights for POV only? Red lights on the apparatus?

Depends on the state. Some let chiefs and assistant chiefs put red on personal vehicles.


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There is a video on Youtube of a speed6 on some tv show portraying a cop car LOL

That's just because you're in New England. There's a reason people proudly refer to themselves as Massholes. When I lived in Boston I once watched a guy almost hit an ambulance (with full lights and sirens) making a turn instead of yielding for 3 seconds.

For rural areas here in NY, at least the department I came from, that's true, because the budget can't support having a cheifs vehicle.

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For the front and sides, in the rear you can run anything. But for rural areas where budgets can't support cheifs vehicles, they are allowed red lights and sirens on POV.

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Gotcha. I work for an all career department and I don't think many volunteers in the surrounding jurisdictions have lights on their POVs. So around here blue = police and red = fire/EMS. Our fire marshals run red and blue.

Not to get off subject, but when you say career I take offense to that being a volunteer, just because I'm a volunteer doesn't mean it's not a second career for me. Most if not all volunteers are just as dedicated to being a FF as much as our paid counterparts are.

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I didn't mean any offense. "Paid department" isn't common terminology around here, it's normally referred to as a "career" department so that's why I said it that way. I have no problem with volunteers; it's a double edged sword I guess because "paid" guys get looked down upon by volunteers since volunteers do it for free and volunteers get looked down upon by paid guys since the paid guys think they are better than volunteers which isn't the case. Volunteers often do more with less, which I think deserves a lot of respect.

It just so happens that I work for a large metro department that is adjacent to two other large metro departments, so there aren't really a lot of volunteers down here. There are, however, solely volunteer departments just a few localities to our east in the more rural areas, and a combination department directly to the north of my county. The only volunteers that are associated with my department are two EMS agencies that have been absorbed by my department so are really just part of the same system and don't respond to calls in personal vehicles. Which is why I was asking the questions, since it's different than what I'm used to and I was purely curious.

In the end we are all on the same team.

No problem. I just know that there is this stigma of paid departments and their staff thinking that they are better than volunteers, when in the end as you said, we are all on the same team and the shit we go through is the same no matter if you are paid or volunteer.

Sooo... back on point. I am also looking for a good place for a switch for the lights as well. I'm thinking the left side of the dash with the DSC switch and what not.

Brotherhood is Brotherhood, no matter where you work or whether you get paid.

That is an ideal spot for switches. I just installed a toggle switch in the blank directly to the right of the DSC button and it looks fairly clean and doesn't draw too much attention.

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Northerners

In Texas you are able to put only Red on your POV, anything else and you are impersonating a police officer. Only person that can have blue and red would be the chief.

I used to run two of the Signal Mini Phantoms at the top of my windshield in my truck and then had wig wags for headlights. I still have those Mini Phantoms but since I moved away from my hometown I have not been able to do the VFD so they just sit in my garage. I have been planning on installing a 12 Plug in the hatch and keeping one of those Mini Phantoms in my truck box that has tools and such in so if I ever get a flat or something I can plug it in and have it running for some extra signalling when I am changing a flat.

The dash light that I have in the video is an Extreme Tactical Dynamics LED Dual, the ones in the grill are from Emergencycity.com and are Police Lightz linear light heads. The ones that were in the back window were the same but the yellow on one of the heads wouldn't work anymore. Trying to decide if I want to go with hide-a-ways in the reverse light housing, going blue on one side and red on the other. Then just putting my dash light in the light and then getting some headliner brackets for the two of the blue light heads, and then some 90 degree brackets and mount them on the cargo cover with a connector so I can remove the cover when needed. Now I just need to wait until it gets warm enough to start all of this.

I have them in my Speed6. Dash light, Rear deck light and red/white vertexes in front and rear. Will post up some pictures later..

Man so?!?!?!