Emergency vehicle lighting, also known as simply emergency lighting or emergency lights, is a type of vehicle lighting used to visually announce a vehicle's presence to other road users. A sub-type of emergency vehicle equipment, emergency vehicle lighting is generally used by emergency vehicles and other authorized vehicles in a variety of colors.
Red and blue emergency lights on a fire engine in Canberra, Australia
Police cars with red, white, and blue emergency lights
A fire truck with red emergency lights
Lighting on an ambulance in the 1970s
Emergency vehicle equipment is any equipment fitted to, or carried by, an emergency vehicle, other than the equipment that a standard non-emergency vehicle is fitted with.
Composite picture of two ambulance vehicles in different light sources showing retroreflective high visibility battenburg markings in light and dark conditions
A British paramedic fly-car vehicle with high visibility Battenburg colour scheme, popular in the UK
An American fire engine lit up at night. Notice the use of lights and reflective markings on the vehicle.