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Friday, November 20, 2009

New Vehicle Response Policies

In August, the Baltimore Fire Department will initiate a multi-tiered response system designed to save the city money on sending unnecessary equipment on non-emergency calls, reports the Baltimore Sun. Under the new policy, calls will be designated as either hot, warm or cold. Hot calls will be responded to with lights and sirens. On warm calls, the first units will respond as in an emergency while additional units will follow without lights and sirens. Responders will move along with traffic on cold calls. The policy was created in response to an incident in December 2007 when a rushing ...

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