Las Vegas Valley Apparatus

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Late to the posting party, just thought that I would clarify that NFPA allows for amber to the rear when blocking right-of-way, but does not require it.

I'm late to the party too.  I'm fairly sure amber has been used historically to meet the lumens requirement from NFPA, i.e. yellow is brighter for a given lamp than red, which is brighter than blue.  If you look at demo rigs, they'll have typically the cheapest lighting package permissible from a particular lighting company to NFPA's minimum standard.  When you added blue, you typically had to add it in addition to other lights to meet the lumens standard.  This is less that case now with the prevalence of LED lighting as opposed to halogen and strobe.  I ran into this a lot when selling fire apparatus.

 

Just spent the day in Wisconsin and it always find it odd that all of their fire apparatus are red lighting when in Illinois we use just about everything (red, blue, green, white).  Plenty of folks do green on a front flasher to emulate Chicago.  Not judging but it takes me a moment to realize why.