The following general provisions shall apply to the operation of the Fire Department:
(A) The village shall furnish every firefighter of the Department with uniforms and a badge or other identification designating his or her rank in the Department.
(B) (1) The village shall also furnish every active member with proper protective clothing necessary for fire and emergency duties.
(2) These items to include, but are not limited to helmet, boots, coat, pants, gloves and the like.
(C) (1) Village fire apparatus shall have the right-of-way over all other vehicular and pedestrian traffic only when responding to an alarm of fire or other emergency call. It may, at that time, properly disregard traffic-control signs and signals; provided, it takes due precautions by reducing speed, by continuously operating its sirens and signal lights and using all other safety precautions.
(2) When returning to the station after a fire response, it shall obey all traffic signs and signals.
(D) Personal cars of firefighters of the Department may carry distinctive lights as provided by state law, but they shall be used only in going to an alarm of fire or emergency.
(E) No person shall drive any vehicle over hose laid at a fire where the hose is in use, except by permission of the fire officer in charge there.
(F) No person shall park any vehicle or cause any obstruction within 15 feet of the driveway entrance to any fire station or within 15 feet of any fire hydrant, nor shall the driver of any vehicle, except cars of firefighters, follow within 500 feet of any fire apparatus responding to an alarm of fire, nor park within 1,000 feet where the fire apparatus has stopped at a fire.
(G) No person shall interfere with a firefighter in the performance of his or her duty, nor shall they refuse or neglect to furnish any firefighter any help or information they may possess as to the cause or origin of any fire or hinder any fire investigation in any manner.
(H) No person shall turn in, or cause to be turned in, any false alarm of fire.
(`92 Code, § 30-4-12) (Ord. 86-27, passed 9-17-86) Penalty, see § 10.99