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Manitoba legislation. Like Saskatchewan and Manitoba, Nunavut volunteers can break the law when responding to the station, or to emergencies, as well as legally compelling traffic and other motorists to get out of their way. However, the exact regulations for warning equipment used by firefighters' private vehicles is unclear.
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Ohio is one of the few states that allows the use of sirens in conjunction with lights. Volunteer
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A vehicle lawfully displaying courtesy lights is not an emergency response vehicle. In most states, vehicles displaying courtesy lights must still stop at stop signs, red lights, etc. and may not speed or disobey any traffic regulations. Usually, violation ticket fines are increased if the ticketed
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In the case of the 3 Canadian territories, Nunavut, Northwest
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Police cars, fire trucks, ambulances or other emergency vehicles have sirens and red and blue or red and white or red lights. Private vehicles operated by volunteer fire and rescue squad members (with emergency vehicle identification) responding to an emergency call use blue lights. If an officer
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Manitoba are the only 2 of 10 Provinces that legally recognizes firefighters' personal vehicles as emergency vehicles, and this includes giving them the ability to break normal road rules, and requiring traffic to pull to the right and stop for these Personally Owned
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Virginia, any member of a fire department, volunteer fire company, or volunteer emergency medical services agency and any police chaplain may equip one of their owned vehicles with no more than two flashing or steady-burning red – or red and white combination – warning light units, of types
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General Medical Council (whether with full, provisional or limited registration)".
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Saskatchewan, but Manitoba only allows red emergency lights without sirens.
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