Which emergency services uses blue flashing beacons and what is the significance.?
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police ambulances fire brigade so you can see them on the road and get out of the way
If this is a UK question then all the above plus the coastguard.
This cannot be a serious question. Please tell me it is a joke of some kind.
In the UK
Blue is Police, Ambulance, Fire & Coastguard.
Green is Paramedic
White is Nuclear / Haz substance response
Well of course the Police do, and the Fire service and ambulance, we all know that, also the coastguard can and do use it and the Army bomb disposal team use blue lights. So where does it originate, i Would have thought that originally there was always a blue lamp hanging outside the local police station, and that would instantly recognise them day and night. Of course the police are referred to as the boys in blue, I think there uniforms in earlier days were of a deep blue rather than black. Bobbies as you know were called thus because the founder was Robert peel, they were also called peelers. Being founded back in the Victorian times, it may well be that the blue lamp became synonymous with police, then adopted by all other emergency services. Doctors responding to an emergency have a green flashing light, don't know why it isn't blue as well
Services to use blue lights are Police, Bomb disposal, Fire, ambulance, coastguard and lifeboat road vehicles and also the military equivilant of the previous. The use of a blue light denotes an emergency vehicle usually meaning that someone is in trouble. Blue was originally used for front fog lights on motor vehicles as it was the best colour to cut through the fog. As a result it was adopted for the flashing beacon and it's use for fog lights was dropped. Not sure of the date that this all took place but believed to be late 1950's to early 1960's.
Fire,police ambulance coastguard. bombdisposal. mountain rescue.
so u dont confuse em wif traffic lights red green n amber.
What the hell do kids learn at school these days ? I cant be the only bloke in the uk who has heard of Dixon of Dock Green and its forerunner The Blue Lamp.. which is still to be seen outside most police stations. So Why do you think its Blue ?
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