Helmet Lights

[NFD-Firefighter]

It is time to get a new helmet light...
I would love to hear suggestions.
Under $50 would be nice, but I am willing to go a little over for a really good product.
Thanks for the input!

[DubyaVFF]

I have a Streamlight Propolymer 4AA LED in a Blackjack bracket. Love it.

[NFD-Firefighter]

I have a Streamlight Propolymer 4AA LED in a Blackjack bracket. Love it.

I am leaning towards that actually!
Thanks

[GTRider245]

For $50, get a Streamlight Survivor LED alkaline. It will outshine anything you can put on your helmet, even the Vantage. Amazing light for the money. I am about to buy my second one.

[NFD-Firefighter]

I appreciate the suggestion... our department uses these, but I find them useless when both hands are full. Our coats don't have good flashlight anchors, so the lights wind up swinging around, and you can't see anything.

[mtg55]

$5 Garrity light. When the smoke's banked down, and you turn on your trusty $50 helmet light, all you get is bright smoke.....

[GTRider245]

I appreciate the suggestion... our department uses these, but I find them useless when both hands are full. Our coats don't have good flashlight anchors, so the lights wind up swinging around, and you can't see anything.

Ah. In that case, my first choice would be a Streamlight Vantage. Followed by a SureFire G2L with a Blackjack mount.

[NFD-Firefighter]

$5 Garrity light. When the smoke's banked down, and you turn on your trusty $50 helmet light, all you get is bright smoke.....

Haha, true!
I would like something good for night time operations though.

[JMac73]

$5 Garrity light. When the smoke's banked down, and you turn on your trusty $50 helmet light, all you get is bright smoke.....

What he said.

[Bushwhacker]

Put your flashlight in your pocket where they belong

[MemphisE34a]

$5 Garrity light. When the smoke's banked down, and you turn on your trusty $50 helmet light, all you get is bright smoke.....

Yep. Me too.

For "night time operations" use something other than a helmet mounted flashlight.

[shmarleybarlow]

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[GTRider245]

Oh really? How bout we'll do what we want. You condescending, "smoke eater emulating" bushwacker.

Oh boy...

[Blulakr]

$5 Garrity light. When the smoke's banked down, and you turn on your trusty $50 helmet light, all you get is bright smoke.....

Do you only respond to structure fires???

We respond to a lot of nighttime MVA's in a remote area. Coat mounted lights are ok but as you said, you can't point them with your hands full.

I wore one of these for a year and it worked very well. It has adjustments for brightness and beam focus. It also pivots downward so you aren't blinding someone when you look at them. I paid $60 from my local Snap-On tool dealer. They're around $50 online. Only problem I found is if you're using a faceshield it glares a bit when the shield is down.

[nameless]

never saw the need for a helmet light. useless in a fire, and not really help fun in non fire instances.