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Miss Mousie
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Last night I was driving behind an ambulance that had its lights flashing. For some reason it reminded me of a long-ago boyfriend, who turned out to be a liar. He told me had been an EMT, and told me that ambulance lights flashed in different patterns for different situations - e.g., if the patient was already deceased, the pattern would be different than it would with a living patient.

 

I assume he was lying about that, too, but thought I'd ask you far-more-trustworthy invisible people inside my computer. ;) Are there different patterns, and if so, do they indicate anything in particular?

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Um, no. Different ambulances may have different strobe patterns due to the way they are manufactured, but there is no significance to it. In any ambulance I have ever worked in there was no way to change the light pattern either.

 

If a patient is pronounced dead at the scene it is not an emergency call. If we are working a cardiac arrest on the way to the hospital it is an emergency and we run lights and sirens.

 

Your boyfriend was a liar with a large imagination.

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