The speed limitation of this chapter shall not apply to vehicles when operated with due regard for safety, under the direction of peace officers in the chase or apprehension of violators of the law or persons charged with or suspected of any such violation, to Fire Departments or fire patrol vehicles when traveling in response to a fire alarm or to public ambulances in emergency use or service. When a fire alarm shall be sounded or when the warning device of any emergency vehicle shall be sounded, all vehicles upon the streets of the city shall draw to the right side of the street and permit such vehicle to pass. No vehicle of any kind shall precede fire apparatus to a fire using the same street that it is using. No vehicle shall follow fire apparatus closer than 500 feet or be parked within the block where fire apparatus has stopped in answer to a fire alarm. No vehicle shall be driven over any unprotected hose of a Fire Department when laid down on any street or private driveway to be used at any fire or alarm of fire without the consent of the Fire Department official in command.
(Ord. 459, passed 7-24-97; Am. Ord. passed 6-10-14)