Is there a cheap way to into emergency lighting that isn't sucky Chinese lights from Amazon? Everything I've looked at needs to be bought through an authorized dealer, or is listed for hundreds or thousands of dollars. It's just some LEDs, where is the DIY hack guide?

For EMS calls in the US.

>>2926572 (OP)
If you're officially licensed, you probably need the paperwork from an authorized dealer, no? That's usually why these retarded things cost so much.
Otherwise you can get some individually addressable RGB lights and program them to flash however you want, but they gotta be strong and maybe have lens to direct the light in specific directions, depending on local regulation.

>>2926572 (OP)
Just become a cop if you want to larp as one so badly. If your sentence fragment at the end of your post is to be believed, then you should have no issues getting emergency lights as a legit EMS organization.

>>2926604
Stealing a cop car is probably quicker. What could possibly go wrong?

>>2926604
>Just become a cop if you want to larp as one so badly.
Basically, they are all LARPers and take any retard who applies.
You can do it for a short time too if you just need to get shooting browns out of your system.

>>2926572 (OP)
Shouldn't EMS already have their dealers? I don't think they give out free traffic pass.

>>2926618
OP isn't real EMS. He wants to use lights to pull over women for reasons.

>>2926604
It’s for my car. The department isn’t buying them.

>>2926618
They don’t — it’s a courtesy light in almost every state, and is never red and blue. Just one, red or blue. And white. Texas is red, for example. A permit is also needed, which I have for my state.

>>2926636
So you don't need it.

>>2926572 (OP)
stop being a retarded rescue randy who volunteers in some backwater rural area. Either your department will sponsor you getting your car kitted out and have a list of authorized parts/dealers that you have to adhere to, or you're just being a typical emt dipshit who has no business doing home responses in a personal vehicle and are likely one of those retards that give good and competent volunteer agencies a bad reputation.

If you really wanna play with lights and sirens then stop being a faggot and talk to your chief or go pro. If you fully understood all the liability you'd be taking on from fitting your POV out with that shit you'd stay 1000ft away from it. Retards like you kill people every year and get absolutely raped in court.

>t. paramedic

>>2926572 (OP)
>where is the DIY hack guide?
well considering that using red and blue lights on the top or front of a civilian vehicle is illegal... that would be why you can't find cheap diy lights.

if this is for legit purposes then pay up buttercup.

>>2926637
>just one, red or blue. And white
red and blue for cops in my state. red for fire department.

You guys shouldn't let yourselves pretend to be this naive and shouldn't be helping someone with high odds of being on of those fake police-or-whatevers who try to rape and kill people.

>>2928737
>everyone calling op a faggot and telling him to do it the legal way if legit or fuckoff
>YoU gUyS sHoUlDnT bE sO nAiEvE tO hElP hIm!!!
try actually reading the thread before posting next time, retard

>>2926572 (OP)
Are you planning to kidnap women or do you just want to run red lights and get around traffic?

>>2928019
Don't be stupid. Those people that volunteer for Fire & Rescue in their "backwater rural area" are absolutely vital and make your job so much easier it's insane. Many of them take it on as a personal responsibility to protect and serve their community and they do it their entire life. To not regard them with even an ounce of respect is ridiculous.

>>2928930
Both.

>>2928957
I regard them very highly, you have no idea what the fuck you're talking about. I was a volunteer for quite a few years in a handful of different departments before I went pro. That doesn't change the fact that many volunteer stations are staffed by complete fucking morons. Home response is something that is offered less and less each passing year because of all the issues with it. Backwater rural areas are some of the only zones left that still offer home response as an option. These are also the places that tend to be the least trained staff and the most rubber stamping, cowboying, and "eh its probably fine" hand waving as far as certs, training, and competency goes.

If you want to do it legitimately there are sponsorships you get from your department and a lot regulations and approved parts list you have to follow - as well as a fuckload of personal liability you have to take on. I personally made the choice not to go for it back when I had it as an option. Almost every single person I've met who chose the home response option either did so illegally or was the over-eager god complex dipshit who actually fucking sucked at their position. These are the guys that new policies and laws are named after because they fuck shit up and injure/kill people.

Considering OP is asking how to do it without department approval paints a pretty clear picture that he's part of the irresponsible dipshit camp.

>absolutely vital and make your job so much easier it's insane
not really. they allow the fire crew's to have better working hours and they allow the als crews to do some less bullshit transports for the most part. Even as a volunteer I was very well aware i was a convenience and a help, but not a vital cog in the machine.

I never forgot my roots and I appreciate and respect competent and well trained volunteers as I have been one myself. Ive also seen how many idiots are out there playing hero and hurting people. Stop being bitter you couldnt make the cut.

>>2926604
lmao this

>>2928737
moron

>>2928972
Not that anon, but around here the "fire dept." Is basically 3 -4 full time guys and the rest is volunteer staff. Without the volunteers there really would be no fire dept at all.

>>2928982
thats why mutual aid exists among other things. There are plenty of horribly understaffed/underfunded departments, particularly in rural areas - but there are all sorts of backup plans to make sure units will be available, they will just likely come from the surrounding territories and everyone just kinda fills in. The volunteer system allows for these departments to operate on skeleton crews and with shoestring budgets, but that only lasts so long or until there's one major incident and people die. Thats just normal government operations though.

Volunteer agencies do have minimum staffing requirements but its one of those weird things where they're hard to enforce. When the country can afford to enforce them, they no longer require the volunteer agency at all. When they cant afford to enforce it then it doesn't matter whats going on - other than the fact the volunteer agency becomes the perfect scapegoat to pin blame and liability on if there is a major incident and people die while waiting for additional units to respond.

The shit thing about emergency services is that everybody wants them but nobody wants to pay for them, and that the gov is incredibly reactive to situations rather than proactive. The system will function without volunteers, but it will take longer and in serious cases that can mean people die - only then does the professional agency get more funding allocated. In virtually all urban and most suburban areas though the volunteer system is a convenience. In the rural system its sometimes the piece of duct tape thats allowing the county to do stupid shit and preventing proper implementation and staffing.

>>2928972
Thank you for waxing poetical about how people are le killed by Cleetus responding on scene in his kitted out F150. That’s not me. I’m responding to the station and have a permit to run blue lights to have traffic yield as a courtesy. Obviously there is not a cheap alternative so please stop necroing this thread, faggot.