Isn't there a LAW?

After 3 minutes you need to turn off the combustion.

Call the Office of Sustainability....THIS SHOULD BE ADDRESSED

I'm sure glad some besides me cares about this. My similar message about ambulances, police cruisers and delivery trucks downtown (Broadway area) has been ignored for two months.

Part of the problem is that the people paid to enforce it, do it.

Ambulance, police and other emergency response depts have been sued for delay in response times due to vehicles not starting once stopped. The radios must be on at all times to make sure the police ambulance can be told when and where to respond. which draws power which requires the engine running to keep the vehicles battery charged.

Last Sunday morning, on my way to St. Thomas More, I pass two giant trucks on Park near Elm, spewing fumes. Standing by the STM chapel I can smell the deisel. I ask a cop on duty, Is this allowed, to just sit here and spew fumes? He gives me a hateful look, screws up his face like some Pekingnese dog, and says "They 're working!!" I make some further remark and he angrily says, "They're working!!" I remember reading that 20% of the school children in New Haven had asthma. I wonder why. I guess the cop spill long clouds of gas fumes while he parks his cruiser and eats donuts. What can you expect from someone who wants to carry a gun and boss people around for a living? I called the police department, who left me hanging on the line, called back twice, no answer.

I'm willing to be proved wrong, but I don't buy the idea that there's any reason to keep an ambulance or police car motor running for 20 or 30 minutes -- or more, for an ambulance. I used to be a Connecticut EMT, and NO ONE, either in my training or practice told me I had to keep an engine running -- EVER.

no excuse to leave the engine running.
1-the gas burnt not paid by the driver but by the company or New Haven City=us
2-radio does not consume much battery at all. no excuse for amburlance running, either
we should record some and put on YuTube

To NH: Do you have a camera that can do video? Maybe we could up the ante a bit by recording an encounter ... go up to an ambulance driver and question him/her about it.

Have had ambulances die after twenty minutes without running and just radios on . This cracks me up ccause you'd prob be the people complaing the ambulance is too cold or too warm on a summer or winter day . Also I'll have to look up the lawsuits you don't have to leave an ambulance running if parked indoors or at a station but on a cold day without a warm environment or an electric cord the glow plugs on the diesel engine won't start. You want to save money for tax payers educate people on proper utilization of 911 and the emergency dept.

The previous post sounds like a barstool argument at closing time, and it's irrelevant to most of the vehicles we are concerned with. Let's get back on topic what we can do to get the problem fixed -- i.e. the problem of ambulance and police vehicle fumes endangering the health of people who live and work in New Haven by disregarding the law that engines in standing vehicles must to shut down within a certain number of minutes. Police cruisers do not have diesel engines, and neither do all (most?) ambulances. The last commenter de facto argues that we need to get the remaining DIESEL ambulances off the streets and replaced with ones with gasoline engines. (If it there is some genuine and intractable problem in using gas engines on the larger "trucks" that make up a fraction of ambulance fleets, this could be addressed on its own.)

More than ever, lately I find myself gagging on gas/diesel fumes in downtown New Haven, in spite of the exhaust stacks on city buses.

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