I saw a cop and an ambulance come into my neighborhood. I watched the ambulance leave and the next day my friend said she saw them bring the strecher in! What does it mean if the leave without their sighran on?
2007-01-26 10:01:10 · 5 answers · asked by little_princess662 1 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Safety
Siren on = emergency, life threatening
Siren off = no emergency, no passenger, non life threatening
example:
you break your arm at home, ambulance will not run with a siren. broken arm is not threatening your life.
get in a car crash on the freeway and get really beat up. ambulance will run with a siren as its life threatening.
if a helicopter comes in, then that means the person is in very serious condition and ambulance isn't fast enough. most who ride in helicopters go directly into surgery cause their condition is that bad.
2007-01-26 10:06:33 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
The person that they were transporting may have been not seriously ill or injured, but still were in need of medical attention. It may have been a situation where the person would have been agitated by the siren, and they wanted them to be calm.
It may also been that they had a fatality.
You really can not tell just by the use of the light and siren!
2007-01-26 18:28:28 · answer #2 · answered by fire4511 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
It means only that they are traveling code 1, no lights or siren. Anything beyond that would be pure speculation.
2007-01-26 20:05:37 · answer #3 · answered by oklatom 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
First "sighran" is spelled siren and it could mean that they were transporing someone to the hospital who was not able to him/herself and they needed to be medically monitored on the trip.
2007-01-26 18:10:36 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Generally, it's a non-emergency or the patient is dead.
2007-01-26 21:03:54 · answer #5 · answered by Likalotapus 4 · 1⤊ 3⤋