r/Firefighting • u/TigerBack56 • 9d 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 9d ago

Our radios are $5000, our turnouts are $2800

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u/Mediocre_Daikon6935 9d 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/Tasty_Explanation_20 8d ago

Been a while since you’ve priced radios huh?

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u/Mediocre_Daikon6935 8d ago

Personally? Yea. 

But a lot of radios are a lot fancier then what it needed.

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u/Agreeable-Emu886 8d ago

There aren’t a lot of options especially if you’re looking to buy NFPA compliant radios

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u/fish1552 FF/EMT who thankfully doesn't have to do medical 8d ago

I think a LOT of people don;'t know as much about their dept radios as the people who manage the program. That is one of my duties and there is so damn much I've learned over the last 10 yrs on it.
That little sticker on there showing it is Intrinsically Safe is important. That isn't on police radios as they will not be in the same environments as we are. Our biggest concern the few years I was in LE was not using the radios at a bomb scare.