(A) Upon the approach of any vehicle or apparatus of the Fire Department of this city answering an alarm of fire, the driver of any vehicle other than a vehicle of the aforesaid Fire Department (and members of the Voluntary Fire Department) shall drive as closely as possible to the right hand curb and stop, and shall not follow within 600 feet after the vehicle or apparatus of the Fire Department has passed. No vehicle, except by direction of the Fire Chief, or other officer of the Fire Department, shall approach or park within 600 feet of a fire at any time. The sounding of the fire alarm of the city shall constitute notice of the probable approach of a vehicle of the Fire Department.
(B) All vehicles pertaining to the Fire Department of the city shall have prior right-of-way upon all the streets and avenues of the city. It shall be unlawful for any person, owner, driver, chauffeur, engineer, conductor, or any other person in charge or control of any buggy, wagon, carriage, automobile, engine, or any other vehicle propelled by whatsoever motive power, to carelessly, wantonly, willfully, or maliciously delay any fire apparatus of this city in going to or coming from any supposed or actual fire.
(Ord. 170, passed l-6-30) Penalty, see § 70.99