(a)
Upon the approach of any vehicle or apparatus of the fire department of the city which is answering an alarm of a fire, the driver of any vehicle, other than a vehicle of the aforesaid fire department, shall drive as closely as possible to the right-hand curb and stop, and shall not follow within three hundred feet (300') after the said vehicle or apparatus of said fire department has passed. No vehicle, except by the direction of the chief of the fire department, or other officer of said fire department, shall approach or park within three hundred feet (300') of a fire at any time.
(b)
All vehicles pertaining to the fire department of this city shall have prior right-of-way upon all the streets and avenues of this city, and it shall be unlawful for any person, owner, driver, motorman, chauffeur, engineer, conductor, or any other person in charge or control of any buggy, wagon, carriage, streetcar, automobile, engine or train, or any other vehicle propelled by whatever motive power, to carelessly, wantonly, willfully or maliciously delay any fire apparatus of this city in going to or coming from any supposed or actual fire.
(Ordinance 124 adopted 10/3/1927; 1989 Code, secs. 19.302–19.304; Ordinance adopting 2024 Code)