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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Make way

If you were to ask a group of people how they can tell when an emergency vehicle is approaching, they would probably immediately say the “lights and sirens.” The use of visible and audible warning devices to distinguish emergency vehicles dates back to the days of early motorized fire apparatus, when the colored lenses of the apparatus lanterns and the urgent clanging of the bell warned people to get out of the way. Today the lanterns have been replaced by an array of electrical warning lights and the bell has been replaced by a siren (and sometimes an ...

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