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Re(3): WTF WATCHES? Posted on May 4, 2025 at 23:54:03 by Tommy Boy
Why in the world is CFD still standing night watches? No one does this any longer. Lock the firehouse and put a 9-1-1 phone on the outside (you pick it up, it auto-dials 9-1-1; if someone outside needs your immediate help they send the run to the firehouse just as if someone called 9-1-1 from their home). If you get a run, you take 10 extra seconds to close your own overhead door behind you; no need for a jock watch person to get up.
If the BC or a bigger shot stop by, sorry - they have to knock on the door. Otherwise, put proximity card readers on the door and anyone that belongs in can get in using their ID.
The hand-wringing over everyone sleeping through a run is way overdone. The biggest worry is that with no 5-7 watch guy, someone is going to have to get up and throw out the empty beer cans.