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/Datsunoffroad 7d ago

Our radios are $5000, our turnouts are $2800

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u/Mediocre_Daikon6935 7d ago

For that kind of money that radio had better be able to transmit my gps location, let me do my run reports, be able to transmit simultaneously on CB, AM, FM, Low band, mid band, mid band, high band, 800 mhz,  cellular, & satellite. It had better be able to scan all those bands, and automaticly pull me into any frequency transmitting.

And automatic know to let my wife I’m going to be home late and why.

That is a 5,000 dollar radio.

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u/Fif112 7d ago

Our radios are $6500, Canadian, and can transmit gps.

They can, but the department just doesn’t use that function.

For… reasons?

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u/Impressive_Change593 VA volly 7d ago

we have GPS but I've seen it get used once to get coordinates for a landing.

the reason it's turned off by default is it eating battery life insofar as I know.