Ambulance???

Question:
I saw a cop and an ambulance come into my neighborhood. I watched the ambulance leave and the next day my friend said she saw them bring the strecher in! What does it mean if the leave without their sighran on?

Answers:

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Siren on = emergency, life threatening
Siren off = no emergency, no passenger, non life threatening

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First "sighran" is spelled siren and it could mean that they were transporing someone to the hospital who was not able to him/herself and they needed to be medically monitored on the trip.

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The person that they were transporting may have been not seriously ill or injured, but still were in need of medical attention. It may have been a situation where the person would have been agitated by the siren, and they wanted them to be calm.

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It may also been that they had a fatality.

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You really can not tell just by the use of the light and siren!

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It means only that they are traveling code 1, no lights or siren. Anything beyond that would be pure speculation.

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Generally, it's a non-emergency or the patient is dead.

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