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A 5 page discussion of the practicality of utilizing sirens and lights on emergency vehicles. While many contend that there is no evidence to support their efficacy in allowing emergency personnel the most expedient access to an emergency, others point out the high rate of direct and indirect accidents in which emergency vehicles are involve. The author of this paper suggests that the solution these problems is not stripping sirens and lights from emergency vehicles but more effectively educating emergency personnel and the general public as well as to how to respond to emergency situations. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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5 pages (~225 words per page)
File: AM2_PPsiren.rtf
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The debate over the benefits verses the potential detriments of sirens and lights on emergency vehicle is becoming more and more heated in recent years.
At one time we accepted the premise that emergency vehicles were aided in their job by the employment of such attention-getting devices. Today, however, we are beginning to question
that premise. Many question, in fact, whether these devices result in more accidents and confusion than they do in efficiency and expediency in arriving at the scene of an
emergency. In theory, sirens and lights on emergency vehicles serve to alert motorists and pedestrians to the passage of emergency vehicles and thus make that passage more expedient.
The purpose of this paper is to weigh both sides of the issues and to make a recommendation about the use of sirens and lights on emergency vehicles.
Opponents to sirens and lights point out that these devices often serve no other purpose than confusing drivers and pedestrians and creating traffic jams which
actually serve to slow the passage of emergency vehicles rather than to enhance it (Leiser, 2000). These same opponents tout statistics on the number of accidents caused by emergency
vehicles. The points these opponents make are indeed valid. Emergency vehicles sometimes weigh in at an excess of five tons
(University Wire, 2002). All too often they are piloted by individuals who, although their training in their particular field of expertise may be exemplary, have no special training in
the operation of such a vehicle, particularly in the operation of emergency vehicles at the excess speeds which are often employed in arriving at the scene of an emergency or
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