Shout Out, Firefighters!

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[00:34] So I got a fun one this week
[00:36] Nice cuz I've been hating these not fun. We shouldn't have been lame
[00:42] Again lighting the Internet on fire
[00:45] Mm-hmm. Why are fire engines red?
[00:51] Oh
[00:52] okay, so the the
[00:54] Immediate instincts is that fire is red. Okay. Okay is fire
[01:00] kind of like orange yellow, it's kind of orange ish yellow, but
[01:04] But yeah, it's also like blue and red. Yeah. Oh when it's super hot. Yeah. Yeah, but like I
[01:13] Mean fire fires have to put out super hot fire sometimes too
[01:17] sometimes, yeah
[01:19] Usually they just get cats out of trees though. So right
[01:23] Shut up fire fighters shout out to firefighters. So so the first thing is yeah, maybe it's you know, whatever fire is red
[01:31] Let's paint the truck red
[01:33] Second thing is like they're gonna they're in emergency situations. So they want people to pay attention to them. So they
[01:40] are a
[01:42] flamboyant color like I'm imagining when
[01:46] The you know cuz it cuz firefighters I think it started out as a volunteer thing, right?
[01:51] It wasn't like a government operated
[01:54] Force rate likes it the same with its sort of constables or whatever where you had a volunteer
[01:59] Police force or whatever right and this was like back in the day
[02:04] Well, I mean, I guess they they had them they wagons originally, right?
[02:08] But then once you had motorized vehicles, the only motorized vehicles out there were like the model T
[02:13] Right and the only color you could get the model team was black. Okay
[02:18] right, and so
[02:20] Maybe if you paint the fire truck red so that it really stands out
[02:24] In traffic, well, this was my original theory to before there were siren maybe there were no sirens and stuff, too. Okay, I
[02:32] Always thought they had like a bell. This is a guy yelling at the top
[02:39] Well, so for me like because you know red sports cars right or suppose supposedly get pulled over
[02:45] By the cops more often because reds noticeable and it's flashy, right?
[02:50] Mm-hmm. I don't know if that's a true fact, but that's you know, something I've heard in the past
[02:55] so I thought of that originally right red is flashy and and
[02:59] People will take notice of it. But when you think about it
[03:05] White or yellow
[03:09] Would be better particularly at night and
[03:13] You know, I think there are other colors than red that would be also
[03:18] Bright flamboyant I was thinking yellow would be a better color for fire trucks
[03:24] I feel like there are yellow fire trucks, too
[03:27] I agree that I've seen a yellow fire truck, but I don't think that those are I think they're like the EMT fire trucks
[03:35] You know, okay, like I don't think those are the ones that that put out the fires, right?
[03:39] Right and ambulances are white. Yes with your with my theory as well, right and now I know that sirens or yeah
[03:48] Lights on top of cars or cop cars are red and blue and white
[03:53] Right on top of cop cars
[03:56] I believe so. Yeah, but aren't they just white on top of fire trucks? I'm just like a red red and white. Yeah, okay
[04:06] Not a hundred percent sure. I've never been pulled over by a fire truck
[04:13] Cops many attacks, but your fighter. No never
[04:18] So if we think it's just cuz it's bright cuz you're right
[04:20] It's you got to go back a really long time right to these sort of early fire trucks
[04:25] volunteer guys
[04:27] Well, I mean, yeah, maybe it goes back to the original. It was like white horse-drawn wagons, right? Were they painting their wagons red?
[04:36] Yeah, or maybe they maybe they built the wagons out of old barn material that was already a way, right? Mm-hmm
[04:43] Okay, cuz the volunteer fire department didn't have any money so they had to use old
[04:49] Yeah, they're not getting any
[04:51] Funding right if they're volunteer. Just should I suppose should I speculate wildly more are we off?
[04:58] No, no, no, I gotta do some reading though. So oh
[05:03] This this page has a lot of words. It's not good
[05:07] Okay, there are lots of stories and lots of theories, but no real definitive answer according to Cora
[05:19] comm
[05:21] Yeah, because they have eight wheels and four people on them and four plus eight makes twelve and there are twelve inches and a foot
[05:27] and one foot is a ruler and Queen Elizabeth was a ruler and Queen Elizabeth was also a ship and
[05:34] the ship sailed the seas and there were fish in the seas and fish have fins and the fins fought the Russians and the
[05:42] Russians are red and fire trucks are always rushing around
[05:46] So that's why fire trucks are red. I don't think that's why
[05:50] That's the old joke to the answer
[05:53] according to
[05:54] Brian M. Trotta a firefighter slash paramedic
[05:59] One story says that the volunteer fire department was so poor that they chose red because it was the cheapest
[06:04] Color to buy well, that was one of our theories ish
[06:07] Was it? Yeah. Well, we said the old that is it the old barn knows, right?
[06:15] Yeah, you're right that the vehicles were all black and the fire department wanted to stand out from the sea of black
[06:20] So they chose to paint. There's Reds red. So drivers and pedestrians would know to get out of the way
[06:24] Oh, yeah, here we go. We're all over this red is highly visible and recognizable during daylight
[06:31] But is the first color to be lost as light fades and that lime green is more recognizable both day and night
[06:40] Many as a result many fire departments switched to lime green trucks
[06:45] This is a really undegoable question according to Brian M. Trotta
[06:49] So there's no is so it's not they're not required to be red
[06:54] This other guy speculates that red indicates danger to me. That's a reason. Okay, I thought it meant stop
[07:01] Red meant stop. It also means stop
[07:04] But that means that's like because there's danger stop
[07:08] Don't go any further
[07:11] Apparently when you ask Siri why fire trucks are red
[07:17] Siri responds with that because they have eight wheels and four people. No way joke. Yeah Wow
[07:24] That's why we didn't
[07:26] Ask her I guess
[07:28] That's a terrible answer
[07:30] Here another website Rockland firefighters says that the most widely accepted reason
[07:37] dates back to the 1800s a time when there was a lot of competition between fire brigades of neighboring cities and towns
[07:45] Firefighters of each brigade took pride in their pump
[07:48] Each brigade wanted their rig to stand out by being the cleanest
[07:52] Having the most brass or being a regal color and because red was the most expensive color
[07:58] That's what color mouse crows. I'm not the cheapest chose to paint the paint pump. Well, there you go fans
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