helmet color! what does it mean????

ok what colors of helmets does your dept use and what do they mean?????? My dept uses White,Red,Black,Yellow,Blue,and Orange. White= Chief Red= Captain Black= Lt Yellow= firefighter Blue= Safty Orange= Rookie

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Permalink Reply by GARY HANSON on December 19, 2009 at 8:42am

Same in our District, "except" . We have as our newest issue, the "Concrete Block" Bullards and man are they extremely heavy. There are some of our smaller firefighters who can't wear them for a long period of time. We still have some of the older Cairns that were issued to us in the mid '90s that are way more user friendly. Most of them are "yellow" so the color coding isn't just the White, Red, Black and Blue - - - -

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Permalink Reply by Mike Gemberling on December 19, 2009 at 9:38am

and fusia (sp?)
Salmon?
Oh you got Taupe (good man)
Oh and by the the way, my helmet is smoked stain yellow. Hopefully that makes me a firefighter.

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Permalink Reply by jim dennis on December 19, 2009 at 10:51am

For my department and the surrounding cities in the area we wear the following:
White for all chief officers, Red for Captains, Black for Lieutenants, Yellow for all firefighters.

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Permalink Reply by Tommy Lewis on December 19, 2009 at 11:03am

white = chief officers, red = capt & Lt, yellow = firefighter, black = jr firefighter

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Permalink Reply by T.j. on December 22, 2009 at 8:32pm

Alright change in our helmets:

White- Chief, Deputy, Assistant, and Captain
Black w/ white front- Lt. and Chief Engineer
Black- Firefighters
Black w/ red stripe- JR or Probie
Orange- Safety

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Permalink Reply by Smoke Eater on December 23, 2009 at 6:08pm

We have added one so I'll give another run down.....

White - Chief and Asst. Chief
Yellow - Captain
Black - firefighter
Orange - Safety Officer

Now I'm trying to get the dept. to use red for Captains due to interoperability. Most depts. we run with use yellow for firefighters and red for their Captains as well.

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Permalink Reply by adam brightman on March 1, 2010 at 12:25pm

white = chiefs and deputies
red = other officers(capt,LT
yellow = lvl1 trained or cert'd
black = untrained
orange = JR's

special teams
green = RIT
blue = Safety officer

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Permalink Reply by adam brightman on March 1, 2010 at 12:42pm

someone asked a question and i answered take it easy

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Permalink Reply by Mark Long on March 1, 2010 at 12:49pm

red for everybody but the chiefs, they wear white.

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Permalink Reply by Greenman on March 1, 2010 at 1:28pm

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Greenman

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Permalink Reply by Jordan Coleman on March 1, 2010 at 2:04pm

in the Washington D.C. Metro region we have whats called the Council of Govts. or COG which has helps with mutual aid and how things are ran on scene. As far helmet color,

White-Chief, Asst. Chief, Capt., Lt. essetientally all line officers
Yellow or Black-FF/EMT
Blue-EMS only
Red-Probies or Juniors/Cadets

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Permalink Reply by Chris on March 1, 2010 at 2:36pm

Chief and Asst. Chief is White
Captains are Red
Lieutenats are Black
Firefighters are Yellow (Rookies get the turtle shell and rest get Traditional Style)
Safety is Orange