Move to the right for lights and sirens!

Speaking of emergency lights on vehicles ... blue lights have no place on fire department vehicles. With one possible exception. Medic units can use all the help they can get to have people move out of the way. Amber lights don't really belong on fire department vehicles either. I know amber is supposed to mean "caution", but do you remember the movie "Starman"? Jeff Bridges said it very succinctly. "I watched you drive very carefully. Red means stop, green means go, and yellow means go faster."

With that said, I think I've figured out why more departments don't use green lights. Green means, "procede when safe to do so." Which means if fire department vehicles used green lights, instead of having people just stop right smack in front of the rigs, they'd be more confused. "Red means stop, but it has green lights. Does that mean I can go?"

I'd like to see green lights on fire department vehicles. Maybe the people that get confused when a fire engine pulls up behind them, seeing the green light, would pull over. Anything beats having someone stop right in front of you.

Fire Department Patches

I've been a fire buff since I can remember. Fire fighting and their equipment has always fascinated me. I was a volunteer fire fighter for a short while and then I was a 9-1-1 dispatcher. This is when I got into trading shoulder patches. Will post the patches I have soon.