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Can someone shed light on why LAFD used Amber on their rigs. I would think they were front line pieces and needing to meet California Law to go CODE 3 would need red lights...
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There should not be any amber facing forward, California only allow red or red and white to the front (also blue for LE), amber is only allowed to the rear.
Technically non emergency vehicles like tow trucks are only supposed to run their amber lightbars when stopped, but nobody really seems to enforce that. I noticed the Avalon engine posted above has the light bar backwards with the amber cutout facing forward, but that is probably an error made by the private owner.
Can someone shed light on why LAFD used Amber on their rigs. I would think they were front line pieces and needing to meet California Law to go CODE 3 would need red lights...
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There should not be any amber facing forward, California only allow red or red and white to the front (also blue for LE), amber is only allowed to the rear.
Technically non emergency vehicles like tow trucks are only supposed to run their amber lightbars when stopped, but nobody really seems to enforce that. I noticed the Avalon engine posted above has the light bar backwards with the amber cutout facing forward, but that is probably an error made by the private owner.
Aaron Woods
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