Why on TV and in movies do ambulances go to pick up dead bodies with lights flashing and sirens on?

[Floyd R. Turbo]

Won’t they still be dead no matter how long it takes to get there?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. They are not declared no-hopers until an official determination of death is made

... regardless of phoned in reports from the scene.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

5. Actually I was watching a TV show where a police detective found a dead person and called it in.

The ambulance shows up sirens wailing and lights flashing. I guess an EMT has to confirm that the dead guy has in fact been decapitated!

I know what you are saying though!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

8. It's fiction so it has to ring true but be a little exaggerated at dramatic points. . . nt

[Floyd R. Turbo]

10. 🤗

[grumpyduck]

2. The one's that's always made me laugh

is when the cops or the good guys go somewhere and always find a parking spot right in front of the house or building, even downtown.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

6. Drives me nuts, that one! 🤬

[Sneederbunk]

3. For the same reason cops search a darkened house with flashlights

instead of turning the lights on. Drama.

[CurtEastPoint]

4. "CLEAR!"

[Floyd R. Turbo]

7. Yep! 🤬

[mindem]

9. Because it's written in the script

you have to keep it horny and flashy

[Floyd R. Turbo]

11. Damn writers! 🤬

[Binkie The Clown]

12. When I discovered a neighbor dead in her house, they arrived with lights and sirens.

Fire, paramedics, ambulance, police, and "crisis support" to help next of kin as they arrived on scene.

She was obviously very dead, but the first thing they did when they arrived was to wire her up to a monitor, and then pronounce her only after that.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

13. Ah!