turnout gear colors

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Permalink Reply by Paul Montpetit on December 22, 2008 at 5:11pm

Ours is Yellow with contrasting orange/silver reflective stripes...Personally never understood the rationale for Black Turn-outs...I like the visability factor...even though sometimes the color doesn't matter much......Paul

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Permalink Reply by mike on December 22, 2008 at 5:22pm

i prefer the tan. for the visibility and personally i think the black gets hotter especially when your working a fire during the day in the middle of the summer.. but thats just my opinion.

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Permalink Reply by dj lee on December 22, 2008 at 5:54pm

When I was on Wallingford dept we had black gear. Now the dept that I'm on now we have tan. I like the tan gear.

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Permalink Reply by FIRE BEAR on December 22, 2008 at 6:04pm

i myself prefer the tan but my dept im on is black due to the older guys wanting it to stay that way

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Permalink Reply by Tony P on December 22, 2008 at 7:36pm

Currently I'm wearing a black jacket over yellow pants, soon should receive my new PPE which will be 'slime green'.

For me a benefit of a darker colour is that even when cleaned our gear never looks really clean - a darker colour can hide those stains to a degree. My current yellow pants, even though washed fairly frequently, always look grubby. The new green ones will be the same. A benefit I see for the paler green I'm getting is that it should be more visible at daytime MVA's - at night the colour is less relevant as the reflective striping gives the visibility. As does the hi-vis reflective vest we should be wearing...

That was opinion. For preference, I like the navy blue that's been popular in parts of the UK and Europe over the years. But that wasn't an option for me.

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Permalink Reply by Phil on January 12, 2009 at 2:50pm

Ours is navy blue... Its really slick. Its wears well, and looks dont matter as far as dirty or clean, we have to wash them, but it dont matter.. I prefer the worn look anyways, it helps to distingusish who can do the job and who cant.

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Permalink Reply by Dale on January 12, 2009 at 3:17pm

ive seen blue PPE, i like it out of everything else

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Permalink Reply by Jessica Travis on December 22, 2008 at 7:49pm

ours are all tan... but in storage we have yellow, orange, black and baby poop green

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Permalink Reply by Tony P on December 22, 2008 at 9:03pm

Baby poop green. That baby is ill...

We call the PBI Gold tan "baby poo brown'!

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Permalink Reply by BillySFCVFD on December 22, 2008 at 9:18pm

Maybe baby barf green if it ate peas first. TCSS

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Permalink Reply by Dustin on December 22, 2008 at 8:21pm

I have and prefer tan gear its not as hot in the summer and easier to see at night. But black gear does hide the stains a lot better.

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Permalink Reply by Jeremy Bolster on December 22, 2008 at 8:33pm

I like the tan gear. It seems cooler in the summer and has better visibility in my opinion. Tan gear with black elbow and knee pads are pretty sweet looking though.

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