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At
http://www.cb.sc.gov.br/ccb/dicas_seg/segpraia.htm, the Santa Catarina state
government public safety official website, a classic traffic light system is
described for the state beaches, managed by the State Military Police Fire
Department, with an interesting addition: General beach conditions are signed by
a large flag at the life guard post and specific dangers are marked locally with
a (smaller) red flag reading "local perigoso" ("dangerous place") in white
letters set in two lines aligned to the hoist. A photo at
http://www.cb.sc.gov.br/ccb/dicas_seg/imagem/campan3.jpg was so tortured by
clumsy JPG manipulation that the flag is not readable anymore.
António
Martins-Tuválkin, 17 September 2007
At http://www.flickr.com/photos/soldon/3494337230 a much better photo (“Joaquina” at Soldon’s Flickr album) shows that the lettering "Local perigoso" runs in one line at the bottom of the flag, possibly centered, indeed in bold white sans serif capitals, and at the upper hoist there’s the State Military Police Fire Department.
image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 2 March 2010
The other flags prescribed by the the SC state government are thus (my translation from http://www.cb.sc.gov.br/ccb/dicas_seg/segpraia.htm:
image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 2 March 2010
There is a State Military Police Fire Department in each Brazilian state (see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_Firefighters_Corps and
http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corpos_de_Bombeiros_Militares also in
Portuguese). The full emblem of the Santa Catarina state firefighters (http://spf.fotolog.com/photo/63/21/118/aliinesuski/1240871137196_f.jpg)
includes the central device of coiled hose, two axes, and torch, used by the
federal Corpo de Bombeiros Militar (Military Fire Department) -
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Corpo_de_Bombeiros_Militares.PNG; the
beach condition signal flag(s) show that central device in color on red
background in a round seal-like emblem with white rim with black edging and
letters reading "Corpo de Bombeiros Militar" above and "Santa Catarina" below.
More information on the official site
http://www.cbm.sc.gov.br and also
http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corpo_de_Bombeiros_Militar_de_Santa_Catarina in
the Portuguese language Wikipedia.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 2 March 2010