Whats your departments dumbest/strangest policy?

[u/TigerBack56]

So i come from a military background and I know how stupid some policies can be. Our department has a few i can think of but I wanted to here from the community, what is your departments dumbest/strangest legitimate policy?

[u/Unwitnessed]

Not enough radios for every interior firefighter. Not really a policy, but pretty idiotic.

[u/Barabarabbit → u/Unwitnessed]

That is not good at all. I would not be comfortable going interior without a radio.

Radios are also not as expensive as other things like turnouts. If your department is skimping on radios, what else are they cutting costs on?

[u/Mediocre_Daikon6935 → u/Barabarabbit]

For some reason, and damned if I understand it. Radios / pagers are one of those things people think ain’t important.

I’ve seen volunteer departments not want to buy pagers. Like. Wtf. How do you think people are going to know to show up?

I’ve seen paid depts skimp on radios, and not have pagers for duty crews, without station alerting. It is wild.

[u/kc9tng → u/Mediocre_Daikon6935]

But they have the phone app!

And the one guy who lives closer to the station can’t figure out why I beat him there by several minutes. Well when the pager went off I left my house. I was driving past your house before the app went off. Or when the app system is down or delayed. Or they forget to send it.

[u/Mediocre_Daikon6935 → u/kc9tng]

Yep.

They have gotten better, but

[u/Powder4576 → u/kc9tng]

In my experience my app goes off before the radio, but still, there’s a lot of times where my app won’t even release the tones at all, especially for structure fires weirdly

[u/kc9tng → u/Powder4576]

Protocol in my area is the pager tones, dispatch x2, siren tones, then send to app. So if they stumble on their words it takes forever.