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/RedditBot90 7d ago

My first department was like this. In retrospect, pretty wild. But that’s just how it was

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u/Unwitnessed 7d ago

How long ago though?

My first department had a radio for every firefighter's riding position in the 90s. My current one doesn't in 2025!

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u/RedditBot90 4d ago
  1. It was a pretty small, volunteer department. Officers had radios; rigs had a couple radios on the chargers, but if we had a full rig not everyone had a radio.

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u/Unwitnessed 4d ago

Sounds similar. Not a safe situation if someone needs to call a mayday and is separated from the crew.