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If you see a blue fire truck (which would be a rare sight, at least in the US), it's because whoever owns it wanted it to be blue. Fire trucks are traditionally red, and that's a far more common color for them than blue is.

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Because they are the brightest part of spectrum which we can see clearly.

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A fire engine appears to be red because it absorbs all the colors of light and reflects only red color.

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