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Fire Trucks are Red!
Many believe that a fire truck should be RED.
Why?
Why is red the magic color?
How was it chosen as the color of the fire service?
Are there colors out there that have been proven to be more visible?
Why?
Why is red the magic color?
How was it chosen as the color of the fire service?
Are there colors out there that have been proven to be more visible?
Replies to This Discussion
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Permalink Reply by Paul Montpetit on
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Women...................
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Permalink Reply by Jeff Betz on
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OK dang it, the simpleton here (me) is having a great time with the plethora of bovine feces (bullsh*t) going around here...I LOVE IT! As for color; we had red in my city from inception until that moronic study in the 70's, at which time we went to a bright yellow, not baby-poop lime. Then, as lighting and reflective stripes rendered the aforementioned obtuse study inconsequential, we have gone back to red with all but our reserve (oldest) engine. The new one to take its place will be red. My satanic side urges me to park that one on train tracks and wait for the accident which hastens the replacement process. The happiness meter in the "rapid oxidation suppression specialist environment" (firefighter living quarters) has topped out as a result of the change from yellow to red.
(By the way, the one and only fire engine crash I have been in was as a passenger in a YELLOW engine, which a civilian DID NOT SEE; but our engineer DID SEE the driver in her RED car run a light and hit us...go figure).
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Permalink Reply by Art "ChiefReason" Goodrich on
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Hey:
I'm just trying to stimulate some good ole coffee klatch conversation.
Did you check out the pedal car picture that I posted?
Believe it or not; that IS the color of two of our trucks. We were actually one of the first departments in the country to use fluorescent red. It was a West German polyurethane paint from Spies-Hecker who has since been bought out by DuPont. To shoot that color now is like a $35,000 option. May have to go back to trad red.
Maybe I'll paint em green.
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Dan:
If you hold your ear to it and concentrate really hard, you can hear "Light My Fire" coming off of it.
Go to the passenger side-the B side and you will hear "Break On Through To The Other Side".
Now; aren't you glad I started this thread?
Who wants a Fresca?
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Now, white would definitely be hard to keep clean.
How's the paint where you have your hose bed and ladder brackets?
I would think scratches would show up pretty prominently too.
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Permalink Reply by Joe Stoltz on
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I did not know that Art, but I’m not surprised. If a department is paying several hundred G’s to get a custom truck, then dammit they should be getting the exact color they want.
Is bright red the same as “ARREST ME” red?
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Hey man...I'm like really sorry for you....If you come by this way sometime maybe we can take you for a ride on a firetruck....LOL Sorry just couldn't control myself........8) Paul
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Were you asking me? Did you mean Zyrtec (that's... Zyrtec)?
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I like the pedal car! Is it like a borderline orange, or is the picture doing that? I assume it is the flash on the paint. Actually, it doesn't matter much, cause as a history/tradition guy, I like it.
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Permalink Reply by Chris Rohwer on
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Our slogan, "You Gotta' Be Mean To Be Green". Our apparatus is Green. We always give the one neighboring dept. crap because my dept. and the dept. on the other side of them both have green apparatus. Both "Green" depts. have beat them to their own firs as well!! So as they taught us in fire school about hydrants, "Red, Your Dead".
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Permalink Reply by myfireart.com on
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It seems that Green is a very popular color for a Fire Engine because amazingly enough, this is one of my best sellers:
Too funny, eh?
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