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 Jessica Travis on November 27, 2008 at 11:59pm
firefighters are black
juniors are yellow
chief is orange
Permalink Reply by Michael R. McCall on November 28, 2008 at 12:52am
Our department uses white for line officers, black for senior firefighters, yellow for juniors, and red also for senior members. The red helmets are firefighters personal helmets. They are allowed but are recommened they wear black.
Permalink Reply by Tony P on November 28, 2008 at 1:40am
Helmet color(sic)! what does it mean?

I just thought of a good answer to this question! Helmet colour - if you can see the colour, then the helmet is being kept clean! Which is what we should all do...
Permalink Reply by Fire Capt. 1304 on November 28, 2008 at 6:30am
We use 1044's

White- chief, dep. chief, asst. chief
black- captains
red- LT's
green- photographer
yellow- ff's
yellow- probies (modern style helmets until off probation then issued a 1044)

We do not have a designated safety officer so no specific helmet color for that position. It is the color of the issued helmet of who ever is assigned that position for that incident. It usually ends up being the asst. chief most often.
Permalink Reply by Jonathan on January 10, 2009 at 7:13pm
Chief & Asst. Chief = White
Captain = Red
Driver/Operator = Yellow
Firefighter = Black
Those are our colors, though most of our guys wear yellow helmets because they are driver/operator certified. mostly our volunteers and new hires are black helmets.
Permalink Reply by Adam Myers on January 10, 2009 at 7:41pm
Chiefs are white, everyone else is black. Officers have white shields, firefighters have black shields, probies have orange shields (orange reflective stickers also)
Permalink Reply by Cody on January 10, 2009 at 8:30pm
We use 3 colors. White, Yellow, Black. White=officer, Yellow is Interior FF, and Black is Rookie or Exterior only.
Permalink Reply by FireMouth1990 on January 10, 2009 at 8:32pm
Well here in stafford, va we use White, Black, Red, Blue, and are kinda pulling away from yellow.
White=All officers from Lt. and above
Black=Firefighter
Red=Probie
Blue=EMS
Yellow used to mean that you were only ff1, and black ment ff1+2
Permalink Reply by Don Vuletic on January 14, 2009 at 10:33am
Chief, Asst Chief White, Captain Red, Lieu Blue, Duty Officer Orange, Firefighter Yellow. Probationary Firefighter and Juniors Wear Black turnouts and certified firefighters wear tan gear
Permalink Reply by Antonio A on January 14, 2009 at 10:47am
Orange - Trainee
Yellow with Red stripe - Probationary FF
Yellow - Firefighter
Blue - Lieutenant
Red - Captain
White - Chief
Black - Ambo Tech (EMT with no fire training)
Permalink Reply by Tyler Stinson on January 23, 2009 at 4:03pm
Well in my dept we have the colors white-cheif and assistant cheif, yellow-batallion cheifs, black- is started to be used for ff emts, red- ff
Permalink Reply by KARL on January 23, 2009 at 4:09pm
In my paid department we use white-chief and asst chief, red-captains and black for everyone else.
volunteer dept we use white for chief and asst chief, red-captain, yellow for firefighters

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