Driving an emergency vehicle is a position of responsibility in the emergency service industry. Whether your emergency service is volunteer, paid, or combination, the responsibilities of and the penalties for not properly training your emergency and non-emergency vehicle operators is tremendous. Civil, criminal, and punitive damages and charges may become a part of your vocabulary if one of your vehicles is involved in a crash that injures or kills one of your staff members, a patient, or a civilian vehicle operator/pedestrian.