EMT's and Helmets.

just wondering if in your department EMTS are issued helmets. obviously those who are ff/emts would be issued them. but im just wondering if those who are only EMTS have them? and if so what color?

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Permalink Reply by Rich Miller on February 28, 2013 at 6:38am

Tracy, have not been on ff nation in sometime. Just saw your recent post because we have a Orlowski in our dept. a suburb of Buffalo, NY. Anyways our emt's are ff's and wear blue shields now and we probably will switch to blue helmets. ems and fire capts. have red helmets now and want yellow helmets for Lt's who have yellow shields only. chiefs have white of course. Rich

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Permalink Reply by Norm Tindell on February 28, 2013 at 8:54am

Everyone at our department is a firefighter. Those who are EMT's (most of us are either basic or medic) may have a sticker on their helmet and an identification badge indicating so, but nothing else, not even on the shield. No separate color for EMT's. Just the usual yellow for probies, black for ff's, red for officers and white for chiefs.

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Permalink Reply by Chris Moyer on February 28, 2013 at 10:25am

Yes our EMT are issued helmets and they are the blue Cairns 660 style (tupper wear style)

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Permalink Reply by steven on March 3, 2013 at 7:05pm

On my Department we have one paid per call EMT and she has a Yellow Helmet

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Permalink Reply by Thomas Huntington on March 4, 2013 at 11:13am

So to sum it up, it is dependant on state, department. What State are you? That could narrow it down.

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Permalink Reply by DAVID GONZALEZ on March 4, 2013 at 5:42pm

California its blue helmets for EMTS

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Permalink Reply by Pararescue on March 5, 2013 at 9:35am

In Lancaster, NY Lancaster Vol Ambulance Corp. we had the option to buy a blue helmet, metro style. Now with the advance of Rescue helmets, blue rescue style helmets have become the norm. While working in EMS at Rural/Metro, I carried my Metro style helmet and used it several times at MVA's and structure fire stand by's. Very few fire dept's in the Buffalo area have an EMS only division in the fire dept. A few, but not many. The few I know of have rescue style helmets in blue and Morning Pride EMS gear in blue / Navy blue that is flash fire retardant or jump suites with the same specs.