This year has proven to be a deadly one for emergency responders on our roads. Seven of them lost their lives in the first 14 days of 2020 nationwide and recently a Springfield tow truck driver was ...

Modern fire apparatus are covered with numerous flashing and blinking lights of various colors. The lights are designed to warn motorists of the need to yield the right of way when the unit is en ...

Fire officers nationwide are telling me that their departments are responding to far more road and highway incidents than structure fires nowadays. Unfortunately, operating on roads and highways is ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — When you hear a siren or see a parked emergency vehicle with the lights flashing, move over. It’s the law. In honor of National Crash Responder Safety Week, first responders put on ...

Ponder the red-backed poison frog. In nature, red can issue a warning to predators — stay away, the aposematic message reads. On the road, red can be a warning of its own, often flashing on emergency ...

Several weeks ago I received an alert about a new USFA publication, Emergency Vehicle Safety Initiative 2014. This document first came out in December 2013, but if you’re like me, you may have missed ...

Elon Musk has perpetually promised that self-driving cars are only a year away. However, today's relatively rudimentary autonomous systems are still making errors that most humans wouldn't make behind ...

A few decades ago, lightbars were the only form of emergency lighting on a patrol vehicle aside from (maybe) a spotlight. Those early lightbars had one or two rotating lights that weren’t very bright, ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department ...

Code 3, Inc. announces the release of the Coordinated Emergency Lighting System (CELS) – complete vehicle lighting packages for the Ford PI Utility and Chevy Tahoe. CELS comes in (5) lighting packages ...