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 Bryon Stoll on March 1, 2010 at 3:09pm

White=Chief, Deputy Chief, Asst. Chief
Red=Captain
Yellow=Lt.
Orange=Safety Officer
Blue=EMS
Black=Firefighter

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Permalink Reply by Ryan Kmetz on March 4, 2010 at 4:35pm

In my department we use White, Red, Orange, Black and Natural Leather

White: Chief and Assistant Chief
Red: Lieutenants and Capitain
Orange: Safety Officer
Black or Natural: Firefighters

My department issues you a black helmet if thats what you want or you can buy your own helmet and use that there are about four in my department the have natural leather New Yorkers..

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Permalink Reply by Jim Lindsay on March 4, 2010 at 5:06pm

In our Department, Chief and Deputy are white, Captain is black, Lieutenant is red, and Fire Fighters are yellow...

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Permalink Reply by Jr. on March 4, 2010 at 5:15pm

White-Chief and Asst. Chief, Red-Lt., Black-Enginer, Yellow-Firefighter

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Permalink Reply by Bill Anderson on March 5, 2010 at 4:29am

We just made some changes. Everyone gets a black Cairns 1010. The difference is the shield.
Chief/Asst Chief: White with black numbers
Capt./Lt: Red with white numbers
Firefighter: Black with white numbers
Rookie: Green with white numbers

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Permalink Reply by Mark Haudenschild on March 5, 2010 at 8:00am

Here in Allen County Indiana we use White=Cheif, Asst. Cheif, Cheif Engineer, Asst. Chief Engineer. Red=Captins and Lts. Black=Firefighter Black with Orange Stripes=Probies Yellow=Saftey Blue=EMS

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Permalink Reply by Daniel H Skelton on March 5, 2010 at 8:01am

in my dept we use
white= chiefs
black= officers/firefighters
captain/lieutanants ware white shelds
yellow=jr firefighters

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Permalink Reply by Chief Dino on March 5, 2010 at 8:07am

In our dept, it's white for the Chief, blue for the asst chief and red for everyone else

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Permalink Reply by Ryan Chinn on February 15, 2011 at 10:38am

CBFD Carolina beach nc
White- Chief, asst Chief, Dep. Chief, captains
Red- lieutenants
black classic- certified in: Firefighter 1&2, Hazmat, medical responder minimum
Black non classic- firefighter 1&2
Yellow- firefighter 1, exterior only
orange- rookie

our departmant does this so you take pride in what you have. in about a year you can get your classic black, and we take pride in owning it because we had to earn it.