Aside from the cops

[Alpo]

Can anybody where you live use red and blue lights on their vehicle?

 

I'm watching Dr Detroit. There's a fight in a junkyard, and they escape in a tow truck.

 

 

Which has blue and red flashing lights. This caught my eye because here in Florida the only ones allowed to use blue and red lights are the police. Ambulances is red. Fire trucks is red. And I think tow trucks are yellow.

 

This movie is from sometime in the early eighties, so rules certainly could have changed. I think they are in Cincinnati.

[Rip Snorter]

1 minute ago, Alpo said:

Can anybody where you live use red and blue lights on their vehicle?

 

I'm watching Dr Detroit. There's a fight in a junkyard, and they escape in a tow truck.

 

 

Which has blue and red flashing lights. This caught my eye because here in Florida the only ones allowed to use blue and red lights are the police. Ambulances is red. Fire trucks is red. And I think tow trucks are yellow.

 

This movie is from sometime in the early eighties, so rules certainly could have changed. I think they are in Cincinnati.

Dude, you never cease to amaze me - the mind boggles!

[Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770]

Most places no. You can get a ticket in Arizona for having blue lights on a vehicle here. A friend on mine's son got one for having some on his Mustang. However, in at least one state in the Pacific Northwest, tow trucks have, (or used to have) them. I saw one back in the '90s when I was in a truck stop for the night.  

[Alpo]

32 minutes ago, Alpo said:

I think they are in Cincinnati

Chicago. I erred.

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

The first polices cars I saw with blue lights were in Arkansas in 1970.

[El Chapo]

In New Mexico, tow trucks and other similar construction vehicles are allowed to have red and blue lights visible to the rear only.  They have amber and blue facing forward.  Why this ever was allowed is beyond me, but New Mexico has had blue lights on tow trucks for at least 30 years that I personally know about. 

 

Fun point: New Mexico State Police use red and white lights and no blue.

 

For me, blue is the color of law enforcement in my head (I'm from Chicago) and I think that all non-police vehicles, even ambulances and fire trucks, should be prohibited from having blue lights.

[Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474]

Here in Canada, for several years, only snow fighting/removal equipment used blue lights. While they still do, Police and Fire now use Red and Blue lights.

Ambulances here in Ontario, are using Red, Blue and flashing white strobes as well.

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

Blinking lights are for emergency vehicles.

[Father Kit Cool Gun Garth]

You asked for exceptions....

 

 

[Pat Riot]

Years ago police and fire used red lights only in the northeast (Pennsylvania northward).

In the South it was blue for police and red for fire. 
Nowadays it seems all police use blue with red and maybe white lights. Fire uses red and white. 
When I lived in Oregon the tow trucks used red lights, which was strange to me, but tow truck operators can and do help police regulate traffic at accident scenes.