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/Barabarabbit 7d ago

That is not good at all. I would not be comfortable going interior without a radio.

Radios are also not as expensive as other things like turnouts. If your department is skimping on radios, what else are they cutting costs on?

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

The average radio for us is now $4500. The average set of our GXtreme turnouts is about $3300 with helmet/gloves/particulate hoods/boots.

Sounds like the dept needs to write more grants. Or start keeping the radios in the trucks and get the dispatching software to alert people to their phone so radios aren't carried home by half the people who aren't showing up 24/7.