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/Je_me_rends Staircase Enthusiast 3d ago

Up until mid last year, only 1 person per BA team of 2 was to have a radio on them.

Everytime someone asked "what if the BA team gets separated inside and only one of them has a radio?" The answer was always "If you get separated, you've done something wrong" as if that makes a lick of difference.

Once we got the new Motorola APXNext radios they issued them 1 for every BA set on each appliance plus 2, so now everyone has a radio and won't die...fingers crossed.