r/Firefighting • u/TigerBack56 • 7d ago

General Discussion Whats your departments dumbest/strangest policy?

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?

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u/minorcarnage 7d ago

"After every second bottle rehab with 400 ml of a 50/50 mix of Gatorade and water at 4°C"

  • We don't have fridges in our trucks
  • There is no magic 400ml bottle to mix the water and Gatorade.

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u/wookiee42 7d ago

400 mL is 15 mL away from halff a 28oz bottle, which is what they sell nowadays.

Are Nalgenes an option? The powder is cheaper and I think it still has slightly better sugar.

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u/ReddutSux69 7d ago

where do you keep the ice and Gatorade?

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u/BanditAndFrog Truck Chauffeur 7d ago

Shit man, that just means you got too much equipment on your rig

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u/fish1552 FF/EMT who thankfully doesn't have to do medical 6d ago

We keep bottled water in a cooler of ice on our rigs. Swapped out every day (or supposed to be - depending on the D/O).

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u/Mediocre_Daikon6935 7d ago

Well first off. Assume 2 30 min bottles, you probably should be drinking at least a quart. So that is wrong.

Secondly NFPA has required rehab equipment on every fire apparatus for at least two decades. So take off some shit you don’t need, and put a damned fridge on the apparatus.

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u/duckmuffins TX Firefighter/EMT 7d ago

We just fill the coolers on the engines with ice at the start of every shift. No need for a fridge although it would be convenient.

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u/Mediocre_Daikon6935 7d ago

I mean, you could do that too.

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u/hungrygiraffe76 6d ago

Pretty reasonable, oddly specific. Even funnier if you’re in the US and they still wrote it with metric measurements.