As a retired Firefighter i am in FAVOR of this policy. It was negotigated among the union members of the Boston Fire Dept and city management. As a result the firefighters agree to this testing and were given a pay raise. I think the members of the Boston Fire Dept certainly did a Great job.
The Safty of citizens and Brother Firefighters are at risk for any member on the clock, under the influence. I think this is a Great step in the right direction.
When I was on the job in Connecticut, we also set up drug testing with certain limits. But it was NOT Random Drug testing. It seemed to work pretty good. But as I always told my Brothers, "they could test me at ANYTIME, even Random".
We need ALL firefighters to be Drug and alcohol free. Its just too dangerous otherwise.