r/Wildfire • u/Dangerous-Mirror1285 • Jul 13 '25

News (General) No chapstick or tampons on fires

The CIMT supply teams are no longer able to buy/supply various medical items including Chapstick, tampons, pads, icy hot, allergy medicine, Qtips, glucose strips, hand warmers, lotion, tooth brush, tooth paste, and so much more! The MED units may bring those items and disburse them, but they will not be bought to supply resources

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u/Zealousideal-Ad-2615 Jul 13 '25

Which teams? Our local teams can get that stuff for us but our teams are state so maybe that's the difference.

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u/PatienceCurrent8479 Jul 13 '25

Direction was specifically for federal buying teams supporting federal incidents.

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u/Zealousideal-Ad-2615 Jul 13 '25

Good to know we're going to have to get some extra supplies for some of our people when they go to federal fires.