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I have seen allot of different lights on allot of different apparatus out there and down south here of course you see all reds, blues, whites and a combination between all three colors not to include ambers on the back. But up North they have apparatus with greens on them. My question is what has those lights done for your on scene safety, and has it had an impact with slowing down traffic when seen and is it only the emergency vehicles that are running them like fire, ems, police? Now for the ones that have never seen a green lower zone LED emergency light; if you ever see one you will never forget it because it is very bright and catches the eye...
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Permalink Reply by John Crabbe on
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But up North they have apparatus with greens on them.
That really does depend upon the department and even the state. Here in WI, all fire apparatus can only run with red or white lights, blue is reserved for police. In IL, I know that Chicago and Peroria run green lights on their rigs and once heard the Chicago story that a chief or someone was an avid boater, so you have red/ green like on a boat. However, those are only a single light and it is difficult to not know it is a fire truck responding.
We do have a green light on some of the command vehicles here and those are only on to indicate where the command post is. The green does stand out on a fireground and an officer can see where the chief would be to give a face to face.
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Permalink Reply by CHIEF NORMAN on
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That’s very interesting John using the green light for command. On you larger incidents do you have a green light that extends up for everyone to see or are you talking about in the upper zone lighting that this green is integrated into the light bar??? The reason I ask is all the companies you see out there that sale a NFPA light bar you never see this color integrated into it. But that is something to thank about using something like a light for command that’s green...Good job thanks for the reply brother...
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Permalink Reply by Derek R. on
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A little further north where I am, Our rigs only use red/whites. Blue is reserved for police. The only green light we have is for our command post as well. It's attached to the back of our rescue aparatus and extends up high/ over the top of the truck for all to see. Very noticable. Although, we also have a group up here trying to get flashing greens on the pov's. A lot of pro's and con's on that.
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Well Chief, right now the green lights are just a light on top of the light bar of the battalion chief vehicles....nothing that extends up. Although I know the dept is looking for a command type of vehicle to be used in larger incidents as well as shared with the PD, so such a extension to indicate the command post would probably be a good idea. I'll have to ask that next time the chief comes around.
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Permalink Reply by Lt. Dan (1508) on
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We have recently updated all rear lighting on all of our trucks to mostly LED's, reds and blues. There is a tremendous difference now in their warning power versus the strobes and flashers they replaced. We have added amber light/arrow sticks to the rear of our first out engine, our brush unit and our "blocker" truck. We cover 10 miles of Interstate 80 and this all was done for that purpose. The green light is intriguing and I wish I would have thought or heard of this before. Thanks for the input. If I come across anything like that, I will try be sure to post my thoughts. Sounds like a great idea.
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Permalink Reply by Timothy D. Stone Jr on
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Georgia.
Red/White/Amber/Green Fire or EMS
Blue/White Police....some have red down in south Ga
Amber/White Tow trucks road workers
Red/White Firefighters responding POV
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Permalink Reply by Marc on
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In Los Angeles City, we have red/clear/amber for fire apparatus, but our RATS (rehab air-tenders) have a Blue light on Top that notifies where command is on large scale Incedents.
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Permalink Reply by Fireyladd - Retired Chief Sharp on
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Here in Oregon we run with Red, Blue, Amber or clear. The blues made a huge difference because the public is used to Police running them. Definitely clears the road. Greens? I have never seen anyone using them. Interesting!
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Permalink Reply by Dustin J. Millis on
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Indiana only allows red and white lights on fire apparatus. All blue is for volunteers and red/blue is only for cops.
The only dept. I have ever seen run green lights is Chicago. I heard the same story that John talked about. The Chicago Chief was an abid boater and being that boats run a green light on their starboard (right) side, CFD trucks have a green light on their right side as well. If you notice, you never see a green light on the left side of a CFD truck.
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Permalink Reply by Mac Conant on
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We run all Red/white. I run a RED in my pickup with strobes in the running lights and rear blinkers. County Police have a blue/red combo, and State Police are all blue.
As for Green, one of our trucks (That came from PENN i believe..) Has a green strobe light at the top of a pole near the pump panel that, as john said, is used for Incident Command post.
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Permalink Reply by Chris on
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All our appliances over here use red and blues, and like you guys our senior instructor's and inspector's cars are fitted with a green strobe in the middle to indicate the incident control point. Its handy on the fire ground as it stands out and is instantly recognised as the OIC location.
Cheers, Chris
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