Nearly a year ago our department's chief got fired. One of the issues was the troubles that he had driving the department Expedition around. It was high visibility until one of his crashes then the stickers became the blend in type. But problems such as showing up on TV at an incident 100 miles away was just a small part of what got him canned. Our department rarely gets turned down when they ask for a truck or equipment. One of the biggest problems was member turnover under him.
Steve AW, It sounds like you are thinking that the NFPA is a federal gov't. agency, well it is not. It is a private organization funded by insurance companies. They have no authority at all to tell departments what to do. They can only recommend. Fire Departments often show sections of the NFPA standards to budget committees and town councils to support their requests for funding. Our chief would leave off the end of the section where it says that the decision is really the chief's. The insurance underwriters have much more authority, but the town is always free to go to another company.
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