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/soapdonkey 7d ago

Turnouts must be washed in the extractor after every structure fire. Of 6 stations only 2 have an extractor. One of which was broken for 9 months. We cannot travel to the other stations to wash out turnouts. We cannot ask the other shifts to wash them for us. We do not have an extra set of turnouts. It’s like tard loop.

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u/chuckfinley79 27 looooooooooooooong years 6d ago

Tard loop. I like that I’m gonna use that.