r/Firefighting 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/TX_Bardown 7d ago

This is an old old policy, no longer in affect, but we used to “have to keep phone calls to 5 minutes or less”. These were obviously written before cell phones but hadn’t been taken out until recently.

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u/[deleted] 7d ago

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u/TX_Bardown 6d ago

I meaaaaan cmon!