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Originally Posted by burn_this_city

In an emergency the fire truck should be able to exceed walking speed.

Cars can't move out of the way when there's nowhere to move to.

You can't really attempt to move too early, when you don't know which path is going to open up behind you. You also don't know if the fire truck intends to turn, or keep going straight at each light.

Again, overall that went nearly as well as could be expected for the fire truck.