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/JK3097 6d ago

Please name these departments or post links to these policies! I think a collection of these would really be useful & get a good laugh.

My dept is comprised of many smaller and now defunct departments that consolidated. This was before my time so I’ve only heard stories and read the old policies, but there was one about how to properly load the dishwasher.

Ironically, when the last two moderate sized departments merged, there was a huge clash of culture since one was heavily policy-driven and the other not so much which led to major divisions within the ranks and a lot debates.