HA! Awesome!
I love the ones with the flames.
Red, here, but some of the other fire department’s vehicles in this town are white-with-blue signage. They are department trucks, but not “firetrucks”.
Denver, CO – white trucks with yellow stripes
The fire trucks at our local VFD are red, but they were day-glo yellow when I grew up in Boca Raton, Fl.
Nothing useful, unless responders are in the habit of driving and parking their trucks with all the lights turned off. And the chrome dulled. And all the reflective panels covered.
It has nothing to do with meaningful research about visibility or the relative brightness of perceived colors. The whole “yellow-green fire truck” fad traces to one minimal “study” around 1970, and decades of reverse justification.
Indianapolis and surrounding areas, almost always red. There are a few local-neighborhood-type deals with yellow ones, though.
I live in a major metropolitan area and walk / drive / masstransit around extensively so I see lots of fire trucks from a lot of municipalities and villages and cities and whatnot.
Red is still a very common color. I see quite a few yellow ones, as well. Saw one this summer that was the same fluorescent chartreuse as the greenish-yellow reflective temporary caution signs that you sometimes see around construction sites.
Hey, I just said it was popular, not right! Nowhere, however, did I find a reference to “fire is red so fire trucks are red”.
Actually, though, around that time period black was the cheapest paint color - hence Henry Ford settling on black as the sole color for Model T’s in 1913.
Victoria, Australia. The heavy appliances are red; slip-ons are just a white ute.
I have seen the greenish-yellow ones around from time to time. But it seems like 99% are red in New Jersey.
I remember hearing about some study that found yellow-green to be the most visible color, and fire trucks getting repainted accordingly. But all those lights and sirens make even a red fire truck hard to miss anyway, so tradition eventually won out.
South of Seattle, WA, bright yellow. I’ve seen a few red ones, but they look older, and the newer ones are yellow.
I put red but it wasn’t really an “of course” because they were yellow before they bought new ones. Some towns around here still have yellow. I’m in east central South Dakota.
Fire trucks come in many colors, just as sure as the sky is blue.
This is pretty cool, thanks for your participation.
I wonder why the trucks seem to be a different color at the airport. I need to find out what they use at Hartsfield-Jackson.
I did read somewhere the black over red ones in Chicago are to commemorate those who have lost their lives in service.
Yellow. When I was a kid (30ish years ago) they were red.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACT_Fire_and_Rescue
The rural/bushfire/SES brigades tend to be white with red markings.
My city uses red.
One brother lives in a city that uses lime green because of it’s visibility. I have to agree that it is much more visible at night.
Another brother lives in a city that has a combination of the lime green and red. You see it coming but you don’t want to look at it very long. It is not a pleasant combination IMO.
For the record Go You Big Red Fire Engine hasn’t posted here since 2006.
I believe it’s mandated by the FAA if the truck was purchased with federal funds.
The Air Force isn’t supervised by the FAA, so it can have red trucks, and the airport in Phoenix has red trucks because it uses other money.
Shreveport used white, probably based on another misinterpreted 1970s study. However, it looks like a red beltline stripe on their equipment kept getting wider and wider and now only the roofs are white.
A Google Image search for white firetruck turns up a fair number of them. For that matter, so does blue firetruck.