Permission to use flashing blue lights extended to ambulances, fire trucks on P.E.I.
'Anything as government that we can do to enhance their safety, we need to do it,' minister says
In hopes of increasing their visibility, ambulances and fire trucks on the Island can now use flashing blue lights in emergencies.
The legislation was passed in the fall and the provincial Highway Traffic Act has been amended accordingly.
On P.E.I., police, snowplows and highway maintenance vehicles — and some other emergency responders with special permission — already use blue lights in emergencies.
Ernie Hudson, the province's minister of transportation and infrastructure, said paramedics and firefighters requested the province include them as well.
"They go above and beyond, that they put their lives on the line for us as Islanders each and every day and... anything, as a department, anything as government that we can do to enhance their safety, we need to do it."
With files from Nicola MacLeod