Fire Lights That Help To Douse Fires

Just as police need special lights on their vehicles as well as on their person

, firefighters also need lights on their vehicles and on their person. These fire lights make use of both halogen and LED technology both for small and large lights, and strobe lights are also used in many instances. As in the case of other emergency vehicle lights, LED is becoming more popular for use in fire lights as well since these have a much longer life. With LED, the user is never under threat of the light failing suddenly when he is working. LED lights may gradually dim after a long time of use but they do not conk out suddenly. This makes battery the only concern in using fire lights efficiently.

Even this problem is becoming increasingly minimal because manufacturers are consistently improving the quality of fire lights so that newer models are extremely energy efficient with limited drain on the battery. Even then, firefighters always carry spare batteries to make sure that they are not disadvantaged at any time due to insufficient lights. The lights meant for use in fire trucks will have a cigarette adapter, mounting brackets of various types, and will have several flash patterns.

The fire lights that firefighters carry while moving through the smoke and debris of a fire ravaged area is always designed to be attached somewhere on the user's body. This provision is very important because a firefighter has to have both his hands free to go about his work and cannot have one hand holding his light. Some fire lights can be attached to the brim of a fire helmet, or even to a belt or other parts of a uniform. These lights will typically have swivel clamps for attaching the lights. The advantage with swivel clamps is that they can be rotated a full circle so that the light can be focused in any angle or direction.

Bidirectional fire lights, that is, lights which have a forward facing half as well as a backward facing half are quite popular with firefighters. While they need a forward looking light to move forward, the backward facing one is necessary to keep themselves visible to those following, to make it easy for the group to synchronize their actions. In some fire lights the backward facing lights are kept blue in color as blue lights are easier to track amidst smoke.

There are larger hand held fire lights also, a few of which firefighters store in their vehicles all the time. These can also be rested on the ground at the operation site and will have powerful beams that can be adjusted and focused at fairly good distances. And all fire lights will have feather touch buttons because firemen will always need to use them without removing their gloves.

Fire lights have to be, and are always, shock proof, smoke proof, and water proof. Heat, smoke, and water pour down at the venue of fire rescue operations and to be useful in a place like that these lights have to withstand severe dozes of heat and water. Collision against hard objects is also a high probability in the semi-dark situations created by a fire and most fire lights are designed to withstand a fall of more than 30 feet.

by: Sunil Punjabi

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