Hopefully Your Helmet Systems Are Easier To Follow Than Ours

[KVFDCAPTAIN21]

Our Helmet System Is Pretty Colour Coded If You Will...I'd Like To Hear Your Depts Helmet Colours


Cheifs-Same As Everywhere-White
Captains-Red
Lt's-Blue
Safety/Accountability Officers-Green
Fire Constables-Black
FF's-Yellow
Probies-Yellow just with Probationary on their helmet instead of Firefighter




Stephen
Capt/MFR
KVFD

[TillerMan25]

Chiefs- White
Deputy Chief- White
Asst. Chief- White
Captain- White
Lieutenant- White
Sergeant- White
Firefighter- Yellow or Black
EMS Only- Blue
Probationary- Red
Observer- Orange

Chiefs and Deputy Chiefs wear White Coats. Assistant Chiefs can wear the normal colored coat or a White one. We have Globe or Securitex Tan PBI Gear.

Line Officers can also wear Black Helmets with White frontise pieces. Leather Helmets are widely worn and alot of people wear the BenII (Crap) and the Cairns 1000 or 1010 Classic. The County issues the Salad Bowl Metro 660C.

[Danny221]

Our system works well i think is relatively simply.

All of our Officers wear white helmets with white coats with thier rank on the back of their coat along with department name.

Our regular firefighters wear black helmets.

Our probationary members wear yellow helmets.

Our cadet members wear green helmets.

Our driver/operators have a red reflective striping on the back of their black helmets to indicate them being a driver/operator.

And our EMT's have a blue reflective striping on thier black helmets to identify them as EMT's. They also wear blue suspenders as well.

[Bones42]

Way it used to be...

Chiefs - White helmets
Capts/Lt's - Yellow helmets
Engineers - Red helmets
FF's - Black helmets

Now...
Company #1 stayed with Way it used to be...
Company #2 went to all black helmets but colored shields. The colored shield follows old way pattern and it works fine when it's nice and clear and you are looking at a guy from the front. When you look from the back...who knows who is what.

Not really happy with their setup, but changing it is like arguing with a brick wall.

[FlyingKiwi]

Probies. Red

Qualified FF. Yellow one reflective red stripe around base

QFF with BA. As above with 1 inch reflective white square either side above red stripe.

Senior FF. Two red stripes.

Station Officer. Yellow one Blue stripe.

Senior Station Officer. Two Blue Stripes.

Deputy CFO. White one blue stripe.

Cheif Fire Officer. White, two blue stripes and the words "Chief Fire Officer" accross the front in red.

[WTFD10]

Tactical Tupperware - $120.00

Cairns New Yorker - $400.00

Using the search function to find how many times this topic has been posted here - Priceless



Just kiddin' with ya Cap! This has been a popular topic through the years. Do a search for "helmet colors" and you'll find lots of info.

[explr985]

Department #1
White- Chief
Red- Captain
Yellow- Engineer
Black- Firefighter
Blue/green- Explorer


Department #2
White- Chief
Red- Captian
Black- F.E.O.s and Firefighters
Blue- Explorers

[firenresq77]

I'm with WTFD10 on this one. You'll probably find all kinds of threads on this very same topic..........

[FoxFireman109]

we currently dont have an organized color code. weve been thinking about all white for officers. does it work well? and this is my first post..ive been reading for months and aol wouldnt let me post so im new

[0ptical42]

Chief - White Helmet w/ white shield
1st Asst. Chief - White Helmet w/ white shield
2nd Asst. Chief - White Helmet w/ white shield
Captain - White Helmet w/ white shield
Lt. - Red Helmet w/ white shield
1st Lt. - Red Helmet w/ white shield
Engineers - Red Helmet w/ red shield
Safety Officers - Blue Helmet w/ blue shield
Fire Rescue (EMT trained members) - Yellow Helmet w/ black shield
FF - Black w/ black shield
Probies - Black Helmet with an Orange Shield

In addition probies receive a strip of colored tape to place on their shield to show their ranking as a probie as well as to write their name on it.
No tape - No training
Red Tape - Has completed Basics
Yellow Tape - Has completed Intermediate Training
Green Tape - Has completed Advanced Training

[MalteseMonster]

There you go.... http://cms.firehouse.com/forums2/sho...threadid=56494

[CALFFBOU]

This subject has come up enough. Rather than me
telling you what my department has, etc, etc. It
sounds like you are looking for a system for
numerous positions/jobs.

Please let me suggest the magnet panel system for
your existing helmets. You can make any type of
phrase or position on the side of your helmet then
switch it out as needed.

Like "RIC", "IC" or "SAFETY". Here is the link
below to give you an idea.

http://cms.firehouse.com/forums2/sho...=phenix+helmet

[ffexpCP]

Our system is fairly easy.

Chief: white
Lt: red
Capt: yellow
FF: black

All of these are leather

Explorers use black plastic with the appropriate crescents.

We use vests for safety officer, IC, information officer, etc…

[RowdyBrassPiper]

Chief- White
Asst. Chief- White
Deputy Chief- White
Battalion Chief- White
Captain- White
Lt- White
Indians- Black

As you can see we have to many Chiefs and not enough....

[BCZimmerman]

Chiefs- White helmet with White/Black Helmet Shield
Captains- Red Helmet with Orange/White Helmet Shield
Lieutenants- Yellow Helmet with White/Orange Helmet Shield
Firefighters- Yellow Helmets with Orange/White Helmet Shields

Apprentices have no rockers on Helmet.

FoxFireman109 you should consult the Seattle Fire System, they did a lot of research after an incident in accountibility. Everything is pulled together. Most of Washington State does it, has for years.

[Dave1105]

Volunteer - All helmets have yellow reflective tape around base:
Captain - Red Helmet w/ Yellow "Captain" arc
Leuitennant - Yellow Helmet w/ Green "Leuitennant" arc
Firefighter - Yellow Helmet

Career - All helmets have white reflective tape around base:
Fire Officer - Red Helmet w/ white "Fire Officer" arc
Leading Firefighter - Yellow helmet w/ 3 red chevrons on side
Qualified Firefighter - Yellow helmet w/ 1 red chevron
Firefighter - Yellow helmet

All ranks above this "Day to day" level use white helmets with red arc's denoting their rank. The reflective tape around the base of the helmet will still change in accordance to whether they are staff or volunteer positions.

Additionally, placed on each side of your helmet are your PPE certification and first-aid certification.
No markings means no certs.
BA - Means Breathing Aparatus only
PE - Protective Equipment (Splash suits and Gas Suits)
HA - Hazmat
Green first aid cross - First aid qualified

With the PPE certs you only ever have one on your helmet, as PE requires BA and HA requires PE. You don't end up having the whole alphabet on the side of your head...

[Stick533]

Chief- White
Deputy Chief- White
Captain- Red
Lt's- Red
FF's cleared to enter- Black
Rookies- Yellow

Some of our FF's cleared still have the yellow helmets because anyone with black bought them personally. (More of a pride thing) The chief has been debating on issuing Black for anyone cleared because almost everyone who's cleared has them, but it hasn't gone through.

[LeuitEFDems]

Here in my dept we use the following helmet arrangements:
Chief, Asst Chief-white with rocker detonating rank
Officers (Capts, Lt's)-Red with rocker detonating rank
Interior Qualified FF's- Black w/ firefighter rocker
Probie/non-qualified FF's-Yellow w/ firefighter rocker
In addition, for EMS personel (there are only a few of us), there is sub rocker detonating level (EMT, EMT-I, Medic) athough we are only a 1st response, non-transporting dept

[Cellblock776]

Chiefs and Assistant Chiefs- White
Firefighters- Red
Firefighters with Medical training (First Responder, EMT-B, paramedic)- Blue

[Moose2028]

ours goes like this.

Cheif/ Assit. Cheif- White

Captain/Lt's- Red

Seargeant- Yellow w/ seargeant crest

Firefighters- Yellow w/ FF crest

Probie FF- Yellow W/ Big Red P on side of helmet

Explorer Sr. Command- Orange

Explorer Sta. Officer- Blue

Explorer- Black

Our members are issiued the 660's but they have a choice of buying a trad. helmet of their choice.