I’m getting ready to retire after 26 years working for the DOD. I started as a volunteer back in the 1900s since I’m getting ready to retire I wanted to join my local volunteer department in my small town to stay busy and help out the community. Tonight I went to the department business meeting to meet everyone, turn in copies of my certifications to the Fire Chief and kind of just see what everything was about.
Right before the general membership meeting they have an officers meeting so the majority of the members I’ll stand out in the bays, talking and doing what normal people do when they’re waiting I said hi to everybody and the first conversation that I heard was an in-depth very serious discussion on the best set up and equipment to use when strobing out your POV. this went on for 25 minutes with pros and cons of different equipment suppliers how it’s absolutely best to have all of your lights from one manufacturer how you need to tie in your headlights and your fog lights to the emergency system and how your system is absolutely no good if you don’t have a siren to go with it.
Are departments running lights on their POV‘s still a thing? When I volunteered many years ago, only chief officers were allowed to do it, but that was a different time in a different state. I haven’t volunteered in a long long time and I just assumed that things like that had stopped. am I wrong?