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Posted by Dibley at 01:46 PM on March 18, 2009

Just a quick question, ive seen a few different ranks within the service but i saw one yesterday that stumped me,

a half white helmet with red top bit and station officer rank, he also had a station number on it to,

could anyone give me a idea??

cheers

Categories: General Fire News

3 Comments

Reply Mark Elliott

05:51 PM on March 19, 2009

I have also seen a yellow helmet with a white top on it.

Also, I have noticed that some stations are using the new helmets alongside the old, As the phaseout begins.

Regards.
Mark.

Reply FlynnyStn47

09:30 AM on April 12, 2009

Bit of info for you on the helmet thing. The red face on the helmet denotes an "instructor" at HQ. Though if you see a red face on a helmet at an incident, the visual services dept use this colour scheme too. The white face on a yellow helmet helmet used to be for an "in development" watch manager, however, the use of this colour scheme has now been phased out.
When you have seen the new style Rosenbauer helmet being used alongside the old Cromwell 600 helmet, that was when the new helmets were "on trial". The trial was successful and now all WYFRS personnel have been issued with a brand new dayglo Rosenbauer helmet. A bit heavy and slightly uncomfortable, but so far so good.
I hope this has answered your queries.

Reply Mark Elliott

08:54 PM on May 08, 2009

The new helmets are similar to the WW2 German helmets, But in yellow.Lol!!

I was just getting used to the cromwell 600's, After my favourite 1980's cromwells.

It is a shame that the WY badge is tiny compared to the old helmets.