One of my good friends is a paramedic here in Florida he says that the rules are very strict when it comes to emergency vehicles.They can only do certain things
at the highest rated code(call) and they always stop at any form of intersection make sure things are clear and go through.
In the county he works for all vehicles(police,fire,ambulance) have data recording system that records the rate of speed and also tells if in fact the lights and sirens are active.The recording system runs constantly as long as the vehicle is traveling down the road no matter what the situation.His employer often reviews the data and if you get caught blasting through an intersection you more or less get fired and at minimum a very serious reprimand if you cause an accident in any form involving public vechiles that is the fault of the person driving the emergency vehicle you get fired.
In my opinion any agency that allows its employees to blast through an intersection with out stopping to quickly check that things are clear that agency is flirting with disaster.
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