Fire Brigade

On my bus ride to work this morning I saw two fire engines from the Singapore Fire Brigade. They were responding at an apartment complex. The fire engines are big and red just like they are in the US.

The fire fighters looked a little different. They were wearing navy blue protective gear with bright orange X's on the front and back with a belt around the middle. (It reminded me very much of my orange crossing patrol belt from elementary school.) To finish their uniform, they were wearing bright orange helmets. Now, these are not the helmets our firefighters in the US wear, these were much bigger and covered much more of the head. Kind of like a Storm Trooper helmet but bright orange and minus the part covering the face. I have searched online for a good photo of the uniform but cannot locate one. My first impression was that they looked like a Lego character.

While the way the firefighters looked was a bit different there was one thing about the scene that reminded me of home. All sorts of on-lookers gathered around wondering what had happened. They were keeping a respectful distance but were curious nonetheless.

It looked like it wasn't too serious of a situation and they had it under control. Regardless of how different they may look, I am happy to see that they respond in a similar fashion to home.