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If you are operating at a motor vehicle accident with out fire or hazmat you should be wearing a vest. The key word is directly expose them. If you are not directly involved with fire suppression or hazmat mitigation you are required to have a vest on. Command officers, equipment operators and other support personnel should have vests on.

Most of the companies that did the survey conducted them with traffic, with out lights and siren. Others did them while enroute to calls. There may have been a few companies that followed the chiefs request. The paper is making it out to be a lot more than it was. Don't get me wrong responding with lights and siren to a call is dangerous enough. So to ask for a study to be done with them is a bad choice.