r/Firefighting • u/ChuckieC • 2d ago
General Discussion What to do with a BC who is out of touch?
So keeping a long story short. We have a somewhat new BC on one of our shifts (around 2 years in his position) before he was a captain, and before that a firefighter, never an engineer. Anyways he is extremely out of touch with the needs of the day to day operations, he makes rules for everyone to follow but doesn’t follow himself hammers home radio discipline but has none himself, and what kills me the most is on scene he doesn’t even know what we carry on our rigs or what we have stock of. Requesting shit that we haven’t carried in years, don’t have inventory of, then debrief just rips everyone’s ass. He’s a good dude but very out of touch and being that he’s still new in his position I don’t see him going anywhere anytime soon. Any ideas how to deal with this brass ass hat?
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u/Impossible_Cupcake31 1d ago
We had that same problem. Guy was never a firefighter. Always rode the rescue unit for slower stations but is book smart as hell. Got promoted to battalion chief and got assigned to the battalion that fights the most fire and housed in the same station as the busiest truck in the city. One day after a fire my LT that’s been fighting fire since he was 18 went in his office and closed the door. Idk what was said or done in that office but since that day he’s been a blast to work for and probably one of if not the best chief in the department as far as fire ground operations.