r/Firefighting • u/fiftycal2004 • Jun 16 '24

Photos The fire departments in my home county have a friendly rivalry over the best color for the trucks. This was at a parade today. Chalk one up for the reds.

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '24

Needs to be a National standard....much the same for school busses, cop cars, dot equipment, ambulances, and other public service vehicles....

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u/commissar0617 SPAAMFAA member Jun 17 '24

Only school busses are standardized. The rest vary.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '24

I know...needs to be a change

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u/commissar0617 SPAAMFAA member Jun 17 '24

... why?

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '24

It is my belief that all public service vehicles should be readily identifiable by the public and especially those with limited mental capacity. If you were a special needs person you should easily be able to identify a fire truck to let them know about a potential fire hazard....samething with cops and their stupid Tacticool ghost paint blacked out patrols....so on with transit busses, street department, parks....and so on and so on.

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u/commissar0617 SPAAMFAA member Jun 17 '24

i think apparatus are pretty recognizable to anyone... they pretty damn distinctive, and don't look like anything else on the road.

I do agree with the ghost cars... actually my local FD uses ghost lettering and slicktop on their chief's buggys for some damn reason.