On a two-lane street, your vehicle is being followed by a fire engine that is not using its emergency signals. You should:
- Continue to drive in a normal manner. ✓
- Stop as quickly as you can.
- Speed up to get out of its way.
- Slow down, move as far to the right as possible, and stop.
Answer: A. Continue to drive in a normal manner.
Keep driving normally, because a fire engine that is not sounding a siren or showing flashing red lights is not an emergency vehicle you must yield to.
Why this is the answer
The handbook says you must yield the right-of-way to fire trucks, police cars, and ambulances when they are sounding a siren or bell or using a flashing red light. It then tells you to pull to the right edge and stop, or slow down and leave a clear path if you can't pull over. That duty is tied to the warning signals, so a fire engine following you without them does not trigger it. With no signals running, there is nothing to yield to, and you simply continue driving the way you normally would.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. Stop as quickly as you can. — Stopping as fast as you can is a reaction for an emergency vehicle that is signaling, and slamming on the brakes in front of a following truck is not what the handbook asks for here.
- C. Speed up to get out of its way. — Speeding up is never the instructed response, and the handbook only tells you to slow down and clear a path when a signaling emergency vehicle is coming.
- D. Slow down, move as far to the right as possible, and stop. — Slowing, moving right, and stopping is the pull-over procedure the handbook ties to a fire truck sounding a siren or showing a flashing red light, which this one is not doing.
Remember it
No siren, no lights, no pull-over: match your yielding to the warning signals you actually hear and see.