color of fire apparatus

should the color of fire apparatus be red or lime green? or does it matter? why or why not?

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Permalink Reply by John on October 7, 2008 at 1:09pm

Although I prefer RED I think it all comes down to where you are located as a community, and what the higher ups want for the color of the apparatus to be. the county directly to our east has pretty much solid blue, to our north they have yellow, west is a combo of mostly red with black trim up top,south they are red as well. So I would say it is more of personal prefrence as to the color.

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Permalink Reply by Mike Harris on October 7, 2008 at 1:22pm

Lime green with a red and white contrasting reflective stripe works best for us here is Eastern Washington. It stands out the best when the visibility is poorest i.e: dusk, dawn and in rain/fog etc.

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Permalink Reply by Shawn on October 7, 2008 at 1:39pm

In the county where I live there are 8 main companies. One is strictly a rescue (amb) company and one is a Paramedic (chase vehicles) company. The rest of the companies are fire and ems. Each company has it's own unique color scheme. Co. 6 is yellow with white stripes, ours (Co. 7) is white with blue, Co. 3 is Red with white stripes and Co. 5 is white with red stripes, Co. 2 is white over red. It definitely makes knowing whos on scene easy.

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Permalink Reply by Brad Dietlin on October 7, 2008 at 2:16pm

I gotta go with red. All of my departments fire apparatus are red with a white reflective stripe and our rescue squads(ambulances) are white with a red reflective stripe. Even the department I rode with in CA, their trucks are red

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Permalink Reply by Jeremy Bolster on October 7, 2008 at 7:57pm

We have black trucks here. They are the best, women love the black trucks! LOL...and they love the lights too!

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Permalink Reply by Scamehorn on October 8, 2008 at 12:13am

Our Toys are White!!!!!

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Permalink Reply by T.J. Howe on November 3, 2008 at 4:43pm

Let's see. One company that I run with had red trucks when they started, then they changed to slimer green, and then they went to and are currently white. In Montgomery Co, PA, there are so many trucks with SOOO many colors. From slimer green to an off white to dark blue, you'll run into something that's not normal!