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/Unwitnessed 7d ago

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

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u/Mediocre_Daikon6935 7d ago

If you don’t have a radio, you’re not interior.

Not on a fire.

Not on a EMS call.

Chief have a portable? Walk up and take it. His ass can run command from the cab of the engine where it should be anyway.

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u/Peaches0k Texas FF/EMT/HazMat Tech 7d ago

There’s a guy in my crew that’s burnt out as fuck. Won’t bunk out for fire alarms, doesn’t take a radio anywhere not even the grocery store, sleeps all day after lunch, doesn’t workout with us, doesn’t wash the rigs with us, nothing

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u/sexyfireman289 7d ago

Sounds like pure laziness not burnt out