# Non-colored things that come in multiple colors

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**Created:** [January 19, 2022, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-colored-things-that-come-in-multiple-colors/958048 "2022-01-19T10:52:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![whitetho](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whitetho/32/1059_2.png) [@whitetho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whitetho)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2022, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-colored-things-that-come-in-multiple-colors/958048/7 "2022-01-19T15:12:15Z")

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Hospital emergency codes. California has standardized with:

BLUE for adult medical emergency  
GRAY for a combative person  
GREEN for patient elopement  
ORANGE for a hazardous material spill/release  
PINK for infant abduction  
PURPLE for child abduction  
RED for fire  
SILVER for a person with a weapon and/or active shooter and/or hostage situation  
WHITE for pediatric medical emergency  
YELLOW for bomb threat

Green sounds pretty romantic. Oh, wait, it’s not that kind of elopement…

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