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Helmet Colors
Around here every department has a different color helmet for thier firefighters. We have white for chief and asst. chief. Red for captain and leuitenants. And yellow for everyone else. Saftey officer is blue. But the neighbors have black, and the officers on other are different colors. This makes it hard for all of us to decifer officers from firemen. If we went to one helmet color for everyone it would make it easier for us to tell.
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Permalink Reply by Nathan Custer on
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Chiefs are white
Commanders are red
Captains are orange
LT's are yellow
FF's are black
Rookies are lime green.
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Permalink Reply by dcltsc2 on
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white for Chief, Asst Chief, and LT's
yellow for Firefighters
Black for rookies
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Permalink Reply by Paul Montpetit on
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Chiefs.....(Chief, 1st Asst Chief, 2nd Asst. Chief) wear White....All others wear Yellow Traditioal Cairns...Only difference is the shields....left to the individual...Standard 6 inch or "Defender type"......Remember...."White helmets kill brain cells"....LOL.... Sorry couldn't help myself
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Permalink Reply by Dwayne Womble on
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In our area we have a county wide color system all cheifs and captains where white and certified ff where black non certified where yellow. This helps because you know who can do what when you are on a scene.
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Permalink Reply by Brian Farris on
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My current has white for Chiefs, red for capts., and lts., yellow for ff and blue for our safety officer. My old had whites for chiefs, red for capt., black for lts., and yellow for ff. Worked out well...
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Permalink Reply by Captain Jenner on
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I always thought it would be a good idea to have some type of protocol, at least within the county, for helmet colors. In our company, white=Chiefs, red=Captains, yellow=lieutenants and black=firefighters. Our neighboring fire district has almost the same, except their firefighters wear yellow and their lieutenants wear black. It always takes me a minute to figure out when we are on mutual aid calls.
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Permalink Reply by Bobby Shelton on
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In my dept. District Chief and above where white helmets. Truck Co. Firefighters including officers wear black helmets and Engine Co and Heavy Rescue (Squads) firefighters and officers wear red. There has been talk in my dept about everyone below District Chief going to black helmets which I think would be a great idea
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Permalink Reply by Josh DeFlorian on
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my dept. chiefs white, captains red, lieuts yellow, firefighters black. with the labels on the side and front of the helments.
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Permalink Reply by grant morse on
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my dept now things are bass akwards we all wear red but are switching to red for officers yellow for the rest of us. still not the best but at least we be able to spot the officers better
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Permalink Reply by Ken Ramsey on
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OUr department or rather our whole county has the following that works great;
Chief and Asst. Chief = WHITE
Captain = YELLOW
Lts. + RED
Safety Officers = BLUE
Instructors = GREEN
Firefighters (certified) = Black
Explorers/Probationary (no training) = ORANGE
Frtom a distant you can tell everything.
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Permalink Reply by Hyre313 on
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my dept has Chief and asst. chief=white
capts.=red
lieuts.=yellow
safety=blue
firefighters=black
it would help with everyone being the same but i don't see this ever happening. at the same time, in my dept we use the abbit rit stickers to display everyones qualifications.
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Permalink Reply by Shannon on
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Our department runs the following colors:
chief & asst chiefs................white
captains................................red
Lt's.........................................yellow
Safety Officer........................blue
EMS Officer...........................orange
firefighters............................black
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