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Driving along warnbro sound av, headed in the other direction is a car with lots of red lights flashing and 2 red beacons going... it gets closer and i begin to hear a siren. It was a wail and then when it turned a corner it changed to a yelping kind of tone.

Since when did western power upgrade themselves to red lights instead of amber and since when did cars with only red lights have sirens??? What restrictions would be in place for their "Priority" response??? Weird

Jared wrote:Driving along warnbro sound av, headed in the other direction is a car with lots of red lights flashing and 2 red beacons going... it gets closer and i begin to hear a siren. It was a wail and then when it turned a corner it changed to a yelping kind of tone.

Since when did western power upgrade themselves to red lights instead of amber and since when did cars with only red lights have sirens??? What restrictions would be in place for their "Priority" response??? Weird

Jared,

These vehicles have been around for some time. They are a priortity response vehicle and turn out to assist at mvas house fires etc etc ( dangerous electrical incidents ). There has been a picture on this site as well as a previous discussion re these vehicles

Several have awful sounding sirens too (as mentioned by someone else here it sounds like a cat being strangled).

However only a couple of weeks ago I spotted one on P1 (or whatever WP calls it) with the exact same dual tone Police siren, heard it coming a mile away and looked and sounded good.

saw one whilst on storm damage in rocko after that tornado with lights and sirens. It was a landcruiser or patrol and looked more like a personal vehicle for someone higher up maybe. sound like ambulance sirens

Most of the ones I've seen are patrols...I'll see if the emergency response vehicle that was at DTEC today is there tomorrow when I go for my truck lesson.

You'll note that they have only red lights. DPI classify Western Power emergency response vehicles as Priority 2 (their classification), one rung down from WAPol, SJA, FRS, BFS & SES vehicles. (Mind you, not all of the aforementioned vehicles would be classed as Priority 1.)

Good Day all,

this link may explain a little more.

http://www.dpi.wa.gov.au/mediaFiles/lic_vsb13.pdf

sounds like every organisation these days is trying to get red and blues put on their cars.

Whats next, priority pet rescue?

A question though..

Why does the SES have orange? if I have read that PDF form correctly they can have red, or blue on them why orange?

Thats out of date, I'd be surprised if any SES unit used only orange, most will have red only and units in the country and select metro units will have Red and Blue. Any unit basically that does Cliff or Road Accident Rescue will have Red and Blue.
Technically we could use orange when parked up on the side of the road and working, but we just use the Red's or Red and Blue's for that like WAPOL, SJA, and all the fire services.

Weedmeister wrote:Good Day all,

this link may explain a little more.

http://www.dpi.wa.gov.au/mediaFiles/lic_vsb13.pdf

That's where I got my info.

I'm handing back my licence when Emergency Denture Repair get lights

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No Ive got a better one - will post it shortly.

robbage wrote:I'm handing back my licence when Emergency Denture Repair get lights

LOL - You have been listening to 6PR too much