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Exterior Member identification

Got a quick question, we are an Ohio department that has a minimum firefighter level one for our members. When we went to this we grandfathered members that where volunteer certified to remain on the department. We are preparing to make it so those members are only allowed to do exterior operations however we need a form to identify them so they are not confused when on the scene of not only our dept. but mutual departments incidents. Does anyone have a standard identification that they use for anything of this nature that is simple and cheap? Helmets are somewhat to expensive for our department and unneeded cost but might have to be the route. I would greatly appreciate any ideas.

Thanks

Dan

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Permalink Reply by Mike France on February 16, 2012 at 7:06am

We Identifty our Exterior Firefighters two ways

Accountilbilty Tag - they carry 2 Yellow for Truck Assignment , Red for Exterior Status

Orange/ Red Stickers on their Helmet and A 'E" on the back of their Helmet E= Exterior

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Permalink Reply by Michael Martinez on February 17, 2012 at 12:58pm

I know in Stratford, CT, they use BLUE helmets to identify members who can not go interior..

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Permalink Reply by Dan Rice on February 18, 2012 at 10:11am

I think we are most likely leaning towards an outwards sticker on the members helmets to help identify them. The helmets are what I was thinking at first but one, our EMS wears blue and two the cost is undo for our little department with an even smaller budget! Thank you both for your suggestions though, greatly appreciated!

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Permalink Reply by Dave Stacy on February 18, 2012 at 1:47pm

You can also try vests. In my first volunteer dept Fire Explorers (essentially the same as exterior members) had to wear a blue vest with identification on it if they were operating on the fire ground.

-Dave Stacy

www.firefightingdynamics.com

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Permalink Reply by 18ncl9sgmdl95 on February 20, 2012 at 4:44pm

Don, call Plain Twp. Stark County (Canton). They can tell you what they did.

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Permalink Reply by Dan Rice on February 20, 2012 at 5:02pm

Awesome, thanks Ray

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