Colour Code Helmets

[WFD999]

As a side bar to the gear poll I thought it would be interesting to see how or if any body else has a colour code system to your helmets. In my little world Chief and Deputy are white ( pretty standard) Trianing Officer Red, Captians Red, Dont have any leuy's, Fire fighters Yellow, Probationary Black. Those whom are Frist Responders only are blue and those fire fighters that are cross trianed have a star of life on thier helmets. Have a great one folks.

[TiSme]

We run similarly,

White for the Chief
Red for Deputy and Captains
Yellow for LT and Firefighters

For those that are medic trained they where the blue patch on thier respective helmets.

Proby's are also in Yellow, But don't go on calls till after proby is complete

[LFD_FF17]

Cheif is white
Platoon Cheif is white
Cheif of Dangerous Goods and Investigations have white
Dont know what District cheifs have but i think they are white'
Officers are Red
Firefighters are Yellow
Probies are yellow as far as i know because thats all i have seen
Medic trained doesnt get any special markings
EMS has blue ones

Im not a firefighter so this might not be 100% right but its pretty close.

Im talking about Edmonton by the way so if anyone sees this and i am wrong they can correct it.

FIREFIGHTERKID

[bfrd22]

Chief = White
DC = Red
Capt / Luet = Yellow
FF = Black

[firefighter9calt]

chief/dc- white
Capt -red
lt-blue
ff-black
proby-black wtih orange triangle

[ndvfd_ff33]

Chief And D/C's-White
Captains-Red
Lt's-Blue
Safety & Accountability-Green
FF's-Yellow

[JGallagher]

Chief is White.
Captain is Yellow.
Leuitant is Red.
Fire Fighter is Black.
Fire Fighter not finished training is Black with no number.

[Brando]

Chief and D/C = White
Captains = Red
Firefighters = Yellow
Probies = Yellow w/ no number

[Quincy]

Chief & Deputy Chief : white
Captains : red
Firefighters : yellow (regardless of training)

[Beaner]

Chief & Deputy - white
Captains and training officer - red
Safety officer - yellow
fire fighters - yellow
probie's - yellow with a black jacket.

[BillyBlazes]

Toronto Fire

Chief - white
Deputy - white
Division Commander - white
Platoon Chief - white
District Chief - white
Captains - red
Training Officers - red
Acting Captains - black with red band
Firefighters - black
Recruits - black with yellow reflective "R" on either side of helmet
all officers also have leather helmet fronts with rank identifiers

[FClement]

Chief=White
Assistant-Chief=White
Captain=Red
FF=Yellow
PROB=Yellow with black#

[bestcoast]

Chief: White
Deputy Chief's: White
Division Chief's: White
Battalion Chief's: White
Training Officer's: Red
Capt. & LT.'s: Red
F.F.'s: Yellow
Prob's: also Yellow but easy to tell who they are. They are the one's getting yelled at all the time.....

[Red_Devil]

Billy i like the idea of the actings helmets, they wear the stripes when they are acting but when in full turnout including helmet its hard to tell whos acting but with the red band around the black helmet, yeah you know that the guy is acting when you see the red band as opposed to just the black helmet

[colin911]

I agree with what Red_Devil said about the acting helmets, great idea ... our firefighters have red helmets and captains have yellow, chiefs have white, but no distinction of when a firefighter is the acting captain. It can be kind of confusing when you're wondering where the captain is, and all you see is red helmets!
Something I might suggest to the higher ups.

Colin

[LTPVFD]

Parksville Fire Department uses the following colors:

White - Chief and Deputy Chief
Red - Captains and Lieutenants
Yellow - Fire Fighters
Black - Probationary and Juniors
Orange - Acting Officer (worn by a senior firefighter when there is
no truck officer available)


LTPVFD :rolleyes:

[fireman2697]

CHIEF-WHITE
DEPUTY CHIEF-WHITE
TRAINING OFFICER-BLACK
CAPTAINS-RED
FIREFIGHTERS-YELLOW

[mcaldwell]

We use the following:

White - Chief Officers (Chief & Deputy)
Red - Line Officers (Capt's & Lieut's)
Yellow - FF's
Yellow with a Blue Stripe - Probies

Some dept's around here also use a Blue helmet for the Safety Officer. :)

[cfergie]

Chief/Dep - White
Capt - Red
Lt - Yellow w/Lt Decals
FF - Yellow
Prob. - Yellow w/ Black Stripe

[pitter19]

HAMILTON FIRE

CHIEF White
DEP CHIEF White
ADEP CHIEF White
DIST CHIEF White
AREA COMM White
CAPTAIN Red
LIEUT /T.O Red
FIREFIGHTER Black
PROB F.F Yellow

All helmets new york style Ben 2
All indicate rank
All career have velcro passport on leather patch this indicates the truck they are on RE;Pumper 3 will show P3
All volunteers will show which station they are from
All volunteer Probs have a big green R on the back of helmet

Personally the Ben 2 Helmet is way more comfortable although it is a little bit heavier than the old style metro buckets.

[LFD_FF17]

I just watched a dvd about 9-11 and i saw 2 colours of helmets in the FDNY:

All Cheifs were white
Everything else was black officers, firefighters and probies, they just had different colour patches on the front.
And I saw red helmets, the guys with red helmets also had red SCBA's does anyone know who these people are and why they have red helmets?

FIREFIGHTER KID

[Hamp42]

Ours are:
White-Fire Chief, Deputy and Assistant
Red-Captains and Lieutenants
Black-Trained firefighters
Yellow-Non trained and probationary firefighters

[Michael13]

Firefighterkid. Is the DVD called 9-11 and about a rookie firefighter, and then the attacks? If so, I have it and will watch it again soon , and see if I can pick out what you are mentioning.

Our Dept.

Chiefs- White
Captains - Red
Firefighters - Yellow
Junoirs- Yellow helmet but blue coveralls that say Junoir FF in big RED letters.

[LFD_FF17]

Ya thats the one. You cant miss the red helmets and tanks either. At one point when they are in tower one and tower 2 just collapsed they are using the camera's light to see people and one of the red tanks hits the camera. So you can't miss them.

FIREFIGHTERKID

[wilderness]

Well here is our color code

Chief/Deputy Chief White and Blue Bunker Gear
Hall Captains and Captains Red----difference between Hall Captain and Captain is the Hall Captain is in charge of the hall Bunker gear Tan
Saftey Officer is Black Bunker gear is Tan
Worker Bee is Yellow with Tan Gear

We were finding that on scene and after a few snow flurries the Chief looked like everyone else so thats why they have blue gear...... man does it show up........

[firemans_wife]

in liverpool....chief,deputy chief and assiant chief are white. Captains and Lueit are red and everyone else are black.

[Pembina1019]

On our dept:
Chief/ DC- White
Cpt.- Red
FF & Probies- Yellow

[Scuba]

Chiefs have White helmets and tan bunkers.
The rest of us have Yellow helmets and black & lime bunkers.

[pothier]

chief /area chief white
officers red
safety blue
firefighter yellow

[scoop422]

Firefighterkid, the different colour shields on the FDNY helmets represent what kind of apparatus they are assigned to. I think blue is rescue, black is engine and red is ladder(correct me if I'm wrong). The red helmets may be volunteer. New York city actually has some volunteer companies in the city. I think one of the volunteer companies lost their truck at the World Trade Centre.

[Fieryred]

Chiefs are White
Batt Chiefs are white
Captains are orange
Lieu's are red
F/F are black
Safety is blue
Invetigators are yellow

[engine61enroute]

Chiefs - White
Officers - Red
FF's - Yellow - with deisgnation - ie-engineer, papamedic ff, FF etc.
Rookies- Black
Jr.s- Black- with Jr. FF on side.

We were the first dept to start our rookies with black hats, most other depts. followed us. Works good on scene to know who you have.

[astamand]

WE have

Cheif and Ass Cheif: White
Captains: Red
Firefighters: Yellow

[dentedhead]

WE have

Cheif and Ass Cheif: White
Captains: Red
Firefighters: Yellow

Whats the Ass chief in charge of? ;-)

Dentedhead

[scoop422]

Dentedhead you are classic.

[kriand]

Come on Scoop......I know you know a few "ass ___ chiefs".

[scoop422]

How about ass captains?

[dentedhead]

Dentedhead you are classic.

Thanks, I think!

Dentedhead

[kriand]

How about ass captains?

You mean ass kisserman captains??

[BRUNO]

Chief: White
Deputy Chief: White
Ass"T" Chief: White
Capt: Red
LT: Blue
FF: Yellow

I'm pretty sure that the Red helmets you saw are the fire patrol. http://www.fpny123.net/ go here and check it out...

[smoke286]

Yellow = Peons

Red = Lt's

White = Capt's and above

[Josh00]

Chief - White
Deputy Chief - White
Captain - Red
Lieutenant - Blue
Fire Fighter - Black
Jr. FF - Yellow

[Squamish-FF]

Squamish Fire Rescue

Chiefs-White
Capt. -Red
Lt's -Orange
FF's -Yellow

First responder decals on the FR endorsed people

[mfdff10]

chief white
captn red
nuclear plant workers blue
firefighters yellow

[MFDFF33]

chief white
captn red
nuclear plant workers blue
firefighters yellow

Just to add, Yellow or Black for Fire Fighters... I can't believe you forgot about Blacky there Westfield... For shame!! LOL

[mfdff10]

oh crap yea... whoops... sorry newbies :)

[bubbacole77]

Chief's - White
Captain's - Red
Lieutenants - Blue
Firefighters - Yellow
(our accountability system tells training level)

[mini_dunfy]

Our helmet colors seem to be the same as most of everyone's I have read on here.

Cheif and Deputy Chiefs-white
Captains-red
don't have Lt.'s anymore(change in the by-laws)
Fire Fighters-yellow
and we have a couple jr. members and they have black helmets.

But we all have our names on the back of our helmets, except the jrs. Does anyone else's dept do this? Cause I know when I went to the fire school, I was the only one with my name on my helmet.

[jmanpart3]

chiefs - white
captains, lieutentants - red
firefighter - yellow
me the probie - yellow with black stripes

[ndvfd_ff33]

Our helmet colors seem to be the same as most of everyone's I have read on here.

Cheif and Deputy Chiefs-white
Captains-red
don't have Lt.'s anymore(change in the by-laws)
Fire Fighters-yellow
and we have a couple jr. members and they have black helmets.

But we all have our names on the back of our helmets, except the jrs. Does anyone else's dept do this? Cause I know when I went to the fire school, I was the only one with my name on my helmet.

We don't here in this end of the Valley..But Kingston,Middleton,Lawrencetown and Bridgetown do too and I think a lot of depts in your end of the line do too

[MFDFF33]

But we all have our names on the back of our helmets, except the jrs. Does anyone else's dept do this? Cause I know when I went to the fire school, I was the only one with my name on my helmet.

We have our Names and Accountability numbers on the front of our helmets, and then in the back hangs a magnetic tag with our name and numbers for out accountability board.

[DCCHam]

Our helmet colors seem to be the same as most of everyone's I have read on here.

Cheif and Deputy Chiefs-white
Captains-red
don't have Lt.'s anymore(change in the by-laws)
Fire Fighters-yellow
and we have a couple jr. members and they have black helmets.

You forgot the two newest colours to be added....Green for Safety Officers and Orange for RIT.

[mini_dunfy]

You forgot the two newest colours to be added....Green for Safety Officers and Orange for RIT.

Thanks Shann.... I can always count on you to remind me...heheehehe

[bestcoast]

You forgot the two newest colours to be added....Green for Safety Officers and Orange for RIT.
Almost have all the colour's you'd find in a box of smarties!!....;)........BC....

[DCCHam]

Almost have all the colour's you'd find in a box of smarties!!....;)........BC....

They're always after me lucky charms! :P

[Michael13]

We have our names on the sides of the our helmets, our Dept logo on the front (sticker) and 2 dog tags clipped to the back 'D' ring which have our name on them for accountibility.

[mini_dunfy]

You forgot the two newest colours to be added....Green for Safety Officers and Orange for RIT.

And how's this going to work??? You gonna still wear your white helmet unless the RIT team is called in, then switch over to Orange??? LOL :)

[firefighter105]

Chief/Deputy Chiefs - White
Captains - Red
Blue - Safety
Yellow - Firefighters


pretty basic.
Names on back of helmet, and numbers on a clip off the hangin ring

[hfdfirejr]

chief's= white

Capt=red

fireifghters=yellow

probationry and Jr. are black

safty officer= green

[Buckster]

No name on ma helmet I know who I am lol.....seriously tho....being around each other long enough on a small dept, we can tell each other apart easily enough....some have different brands of gear, helmets.....different odds and ends etc.....and we do have accountability tags and board etc for the folks doing the hot work.....works for us

[goosebump]

White = Chief , deputy Chief , Volly Chief

Red = Capt.

Orange = Officer

Yellow = Firefighter

[North_of_60]

In Inuvik:
White - Chief and Deputy
Red - Capt
Blue - Lt.
Black - Safety Officer
Yellow - Firefighter

In Tsiigehtchic:
Red - Chief and Deputy
Yellow - Firefighter

However in a blowing blizard at -40 everything is white :P

[twodogs]

Chief-white
D.Chief-white
Safety Officer-green
Capts.-red
leiuts.-yellow
ff-black

[fire16]

White = Chief , deputy Chief , Volly Chief

Red = Capt.

Orange = Officer

Yellow = Firefighter
just curious, what is the difference between a captain and an officer?

[Robertson]

Peachland Fire & Rescue

Chief/ass't Chief = White
Captian/LT = Red
Fire Fighter/Probie = Yellow
Junior Fire Fighter = Black

Plus on the side of our helmets it says in big letters what they are... except probie helmets just say fire fighter....

also we have our names on the back of the helmet

[BMWags]

Willoughby FD


Chief/ass't Chief = White
Captian/LT = Red
Fire Fighter/Probie = Yellow (1st years have a big green "T" on the back)


we have our names on our helmets too, small labels on the back

[wilderness]

just curious, what is the difference between a captain and an officer?
officers work........ :o

[irsqyu]

officers work........ :o
Now take it easy there Pookie, many a time the crews are back to the wind down mode while us Captains are wading through the reports and paperwork.;) lol

[dentedhead]

just curious, what is the difference between a captain and an officer?

None.Anything from acting capt up are considered officers.

Captains are typically referred to as company officers D/C,P/C deputy and chief as chief officers.

Dentedhead

[hfdjuniorbezant]

Our department is pretty similar also.
White=Chief/DeputyChief
Red=Captain
Blue=Paramedic
Green=SafetyOfficer
Yellow=Firefighter

us Juniors have Black Helmets right now but our commitee is working on getting Yellow helmets with Junior written on the sides of them. (Plus our Black helmets are definetly too old)

[hfdfirejr]

Our department is pretty similar also.
White=Chief/DeputyChief
Red=Captain

Green=SafetyOfficer
Yellow=Firefighter

us Juniors have Black Helmets right now but our commitee is working on getting Yellow helmets with Junior written on the sides of them. (Plus our Black helmets are definetly too old)
Blue=Paramedic

[medic590]

Sorry to correct you hfdfirejr. The last time I checked I was still employed as an Advanced Care Paramedic and a member of your department. Blue is the Provincial color and at times I choose to wear my Rescue Helmet during HFD calls.

[Workingfire]

Sorry to correct you hfdfirejr. The last time I checked I was still employed as an Advanced Care Paramedic and a member of your department. Blue is the Provincial color and at times I choose to wear my Rescue Helmet during HFD calls.

Let me get this straight...you can choose which helmet your going to wear? Even though you're in other equipment supplied by the department (ie: coat and pants) you will be wearing other safety equipment supplied by your full-time employer?

Who's SOG's do you operate under? And, does the fire department lose an important member of their team while your wearing "blue"?

Are there any other departments here in Canada that have SOG's allowing this? Anyone?

[SmokeEaterHFD]

Chief And D/C's-White
Captains-Red
Lt's-Blue
Safety & Accountability-Green
FF's-Yellow


I think that thast teh same as our department except the lts have stickers that say they are lt's and the safety officers have green and one of the medics have a blue helmet and us juniors have black ones for now but we are getting yellow ones with brobationary stickers

[ndvfd_ff33]

I think that thast teh same as our department except the lts have stickers that say they are lt's and the safety officers have green and one of the medics have a blue helmet and us juniors have black ones for now but we are getting yellow ones with brobationary stickers

And we're only like an hour from each other..lol

[Rivard17_343]

Harley fire dept has...
white= chief, deputy chief
red= captain and officers
yellow= firefighters
orange= students
orange hard hat type (bullard advent)= EMS

[Jon_ACVFD]

Chief/Deputy Chiefs = white
Captians = red
Firefighters = yellow
Paramedics = blue

we also have out names on the front of our helmets and our # on the sides.

[hsieh]

I think our dept is backwards :p :

Chief & Deputy : White
Officers : Yellow
FFs : Red
Safety Officer : Blue
Nothing for probies.. we know who they are ;)
Most of us have our #s on our helmets, some of us have names.
Our paramedics -if they wear their safeties for MVCs, they don't usually- are orange.

[red_dog_six]

DDFD
Chief -- White
Capts -- Black
FF -- Yellow
EMS -- Blue

Names on sides and numbers on back.

[firefighter26]

White- Back Stabber

Red - Those not Competent to lead

Yellow - To stupid to realize how screw up things are

Yellow with red reflective stickers - Those with the least amount of experience and most likely to get hurt doing something they have not been trained to do.

The core group of the department that was dedicated to professionalism and tried to do something to help their fellow firefighters and their families should the worse ever happen to them on a call: - Denied reapplication and forced to retire by a corrupt Regional District lead by the areas largest burrocrate with a personal vendetta.

:mad: :rolleyes: :D

[Workingfire]

Nipple pink...everyone.

You laugh?

[mutts252]

Nipple pink...everyone.

You laugh?

as a matter of fact, i do :D

for us, white = chief
red = officers
yellow = firefighter

[Scuba]

Ummmmm Jason did someone piss in your cereal?



White- Back Stabber

Red - Those not Competent to lead

Yellow - To stupid to realize how screw up things are

Yellow with red reflective stickers - Those with the least amount of experience and most likely to get hurt doing something they have not been trained to do.

The core group of the department that was dedicated to professionalism and tried to do something to help their fellow firefighters and their families should the worse ever happen to them on a call: - Denied reapplication and forced to retire by a corrupt Regional District lead by the areas largest burrocrate with a personal vendetta.

:mad: :rolleyes: :D

[irsqyu]

Deputy Chief, Hantsport NS-----Grey

[Scuba]

Deputy Chief, Hantsport NS-----Grey

& black with some disfigured bulges and a stylish new opaque visor.

[grahamswain]

Just been looking at the TO fire web site, and it seems that there are loads of blokes all with different colours lids on, black, yellow and red, I take it that there is some reason for this! Anyone want to shed a bit of light on it for me

[dentedhead]

Just been looking at the TO fire web site, and it seems that there are loads of blokes all with different colours lids on, black, yellow and red, I take it that there is some reason for this! Anyone want to shed a bit of light on it for me

I would think they are all black red and white now.Pre amalgamation the different depts had different colour lids.

Old TO wore black with captains in red and chiefs in white.

Etobocoke,North York etc all wore yellow helmets, capts and chiefs same as above.

I guess they are either old pics or there are a few diehards that havent traded in their old for new.

Dentedhead

[FireChef]

Chief/Assn't Chief - White
Capt's - Red
Lt's and FF's - Yellow

All members have accountability tags on the side of helmets with name and number on them. Also everyone has correspondening semi-circular rank stickers on both sides of the helmet, ie Chief, Deputy Chief, Captain, etc etc

[DCharv]

Chief / Deputy Chief - white
Captains - Red
Lieutenants - Yellow
FF's - black
Safety Officer - Green
Medical only members - blue
RIT - "over zealous" orange (hehe sorry, couldn't resist)

We're hoping to change the Lieutenants to Red and all FF's to yellow so we can have our Probies and Jr's in black helmets.

[LFD_FF17]

in Lacombe its like this
White - Chief, Deputy Chiefs and Training Officer
Black - Captains
Red - Lieutenants
Yellow - Firefighter
Orange - Probies (me) lol

[LFD_FF17]

I just watched a dvd about 9-11 and i saw 2 colours of helmets in the FDNY:

All Cheifs were white
Everything else was black officers, firefighters and probies, they just had different colour patches on the front.
And I saw red helmets, the guys with red helmets also had red SCBA's does anyone know who these people are and why they have red helmets?

FIREFIGHTER KID


The guys with red helmets and red bottles are from the Fire Patrol in NYC, just saw an article about them and how they are closing over on firehouse.com

[rescueone]

Cheif- White
DC- White
Capt-Red with capt decal
Luet-Yellow with leu decal
FF and probys- yellow with fire fighter decal

R1

[Ruckus]

Chief - White
D. Chief - Red
Firefighter - Yellow

We don't have any other ranks, other than pecking order in the crews. With a total of 13 members, our normal turnout is about 8 or 9, which works out well (Chief = IC, each DC commands a three or four person unit, each unit generally has at least two experienced ff's).

Unfortunately, a neighboring fd uses red for FF's and yellow for DC's and CPT's, which can get confusing during training, as well as they're an automatic call when we have an MVA in our area (we aren't equiped with hydraulics).

[rescuechris]

In the lovely de-merged city of Pointe-Claire, we at PCVRU have as follows:

White: Director, Asst. Director
Red: Capt & Lt
Yellow: Regular Member (can't call us firefighters since we aren't)

Probies wear Yellow helmets with red turn out gear (patch coats actually) which will change soon. All helmets have the department crest on the front and their badge number on the side. those who are first responders have a star of life on the back.

If anyone has ideas, we're looking into changing the helmets a bit... New shield, maybe with the persons # on it and for officers, have their number on the sides and their rank on the shield (since there are 2 positions that share the same color) and have their number put on the side since there wouldn't be enough room. Right now we are wearing Cairns 660's and there are a few Bullards hanging around but the problem is that we can't put a leather shield on the front, which is too bad cause they look good and there's more room.

Also, once the probies get a bunker like everyone else, what could we do to identify them??? We don't have the budget to get 5 black helmets so I'm guessing some semi-permanant sticker on the sides.... any thoughts?

-Chris

[Cuppa]

in Mississauga

District Chief and above, white helmet with white accountabilty placard with black lettering on the helmet (they also have light colour bunker gear, everyone below this rank has black bunker pant and tan coats)

Acting District Chief when acting, yellow helmet with white accountabilty placard with red lettering on the helmet

Captain yellow helmet with white accountabilty placard with black lettering on the helmet

Acting Captain when acting black helmet with white accountabilty placard with red lettering on the helmet

Firefighter black helmet with white accountabilty placard with black lettering on the helmet

No Lieutenants, Actings Captains are firefighters when not acting, Acting DC is Captain when not acting

[Brian911FD]

in Cambridge ...

White = Chief, D/C's, Platoon Chiefs, Chief Training Officer, CFPO
Red = Captain
Yellow = FF, FP Inspector

Our firefighters that are actors as Captains get a red helmet for when they are acting. Likewise a Captain that acts as PC get's a white helmet.

[ve2vfd]

Montreal FD:

Director: White with "Directeur" shield
Vice-director: White with "Directeur Adjoint" shield
Asst directors: White with "Asst directeur" shield
Division Chiefs: White with "Chef de Division" shield
Operations Chiefs: White with "Chef Opérations" shield
Captains: Red with "Capitaine" shield
Instructors: Blue with "Pompier Instructeur" or "Lieutenant Instructeur" shield
Lieutenants: Red with "Lieutenant" shield
Firefighters: Yellow with "Pompier" shield
Probie: Yellow with "Recrue" shield.

The shield is a sticker with your rank and station number on it.

Pat

[donald58]

chief&Deputy-white
captain&trianing officers-red
safty officer-blue
ff -yellow
probies-black

[yyz_arff]

white- paltton chief, deputy chief, chief
red- captain
yellow- FF

[Keyatg33]

Chief/DC White
Captiain Red
Firefighters yellow black stripe
Probies yellow no stripe and everyone in yellow bunker

[Greg721]

Cheif\Dc-White
Safty officer- Blue
Captain-red
FF-Yellow\black

[ABFF37]

Never posted in this thread yet...

Chief (1)-White
Deputy Chiefs (4)-White
Battalion Chiefs (4)-White
District Chiefs (16)-White
Captains- Red
Lieutenants- Red
Senior Nozzleman- Yellow
Senior Firefighter- Yellow
Firefighter- Yellow
Probationary Firefighter- Yellow

Training Officer- Red
Health and Safety Officer, Disaster Services Officer, Community Safety Officer, Public Information Officer etc- Blue
Arson/FPB- Blue or Black depending on their assignment and rank

AB

[North_of_60]

Health and Safety Officer, Disaster Services Officer, Community Safety Officer, Public Information Officer etc- Blue


AB,

In your Department, are the Health and Safety Officer, Disaster Services Officer, Community Safety Officer and Public Information Officer permanatly staffed positions or are they Firefighters/Officers who move into those positions as and when needed?

Just curious,

North of 60

[ABFF37]

AB,

In your Department, are the Health and Safety Officer, Disaster Services Officer, Community Safety Officer and Public Information Officer permanatly staffed positions or are they Firefighters/Officers who move into those positions as and when needed?

Just curious,

North of 60

These positions are permanently staffed by members who are assigned to fire headquarters. They work days, and are off at night. In most cases there is an on-call member that carries a pager during the night time hours, so should they be required at an incident, they can be paged and requested to attend.

Typically you will see these members in attendance of any fire that is a second alarm or greater. Health and Safety essentially assists with making sure that firefighters are getting rehabed as needed, that there are proper rehab facilities on scene, and basically that all firefighters on scene are safe and healthy.

Disaster services and Community safety work together with the victims of the fire. Essentially Disaster services will look after finding them alternate living arangements, making sure that they are able to get any important salvageable property or documents out of the house and so on. Community safety will assist to some extent with this, and also is very involved in the community as a part of our "After the Fire" program. Community safety officers will visit homes in the neighborhood where the fire occured to pass along fire safety and prevention information, as well as to answer any questions or concerns that residents may have after wittnessing a large loss fire in their area.

These programs have all worked very well, and we have received a lot of positive feedback from the community.

AB