An interesting story from Pennsylvania that is impacting not only volunteers with blue lights, but the lighting package on the vehicle used by Pittsburgh’s fire chief.

Pennsylvania State Police are targeting personal vehicles of volunteer firefighters along with career and volunteer fire chief’s vehicles. Troopers in Western Pennsylvania are focusing on emergency lights illegally mounted on the interior of fire vehicles. According to current law all emergency lighting must be on the outside of the vehicle. Police are concerned that interior emergency lighting makes the vehicles appear to be unmarked police cars.

The crackdown means some light packages on current command vehicles will have to be redesigned. One state legislator is looking at proposing a bill that would change the law, which he says is years behind modern emergency vehicle lighting standards.

Paul Van Osdol, WTAE-TV: