How come I see fire trucks with full lights and sirens go through a red light at an intersection and then, after they go through, they turn off their lights and slow down?
As explained in the previous answer, several units are dispatched to the same incident. The first unit may have arrived on the scene, surveyed the situation and informed the other responding units that the situation was under control. All other responding units are cancelled and put back into service, ready to take another call. Most likely, when you see an emergency vehicle run lights and siren through an intersection and then slow down and turn the emergency lights off, they have been cancelled from the call they were responding to.
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