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Why do Rescue Company members wear white helmets?

 

It goes back to the days of the old Cairns "tin hats", when the Rescue Company wore silver (basically they just polished the bare aluminum). When the polycarbonate helmets came into use, silver wasn't a color choice. Engines wore black, Truckies wore red, and the Squad Company had already taken yellow.  That didn't leave too many other choices, so they went with white. The Chiefs briefly objected, but in the end it was not that big a deal.