Idaho Bills

Amends existing law to provide for wildland fire agency or association vehicles in the definition of vehicle.

This legislation will add wildland fire fighter vehicles to the definition of an authorized emergency vehicle in the State of Idaho. Currently fire departments vehicles are considered emergency vehicles but not vehicles from agencies that only do wildland fire fighting. This legislation will make wildland fire agency vehicles authorized emergency vehicles only when responding to urban interface fires. Getting to wildland urban interface fires sooner means faster requests for additional resources including tanker planes and helicopters to defend houses and critical infrastructure often found in the urban interface areas.