Red flashing lights on fire department vehicles.

  1. Law
  2. Revised Code of Washington
  3. Motor Vehicles
  4. Vehicle Lighting and Other Equipment.
  5. Red flashing lights on fire department vehicles.

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All fire department vehicles in service shall be identified by red lights of an intermittent flashing type, visible from both front and rear for a distance of five hundred feet under normal atmospheric conditions. Such red flashing lights shall be well separated from the headlights so that they will not black out when headlights are on. Such red flashing lights shall be in operation at all times when such vehicle is on emergency status.

[ 1961 c 12 § 46.37.184. Prior: 1953 c 161 § 1. Formerly RCW 46.40.220.]


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