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Detroit Firefighters Steal a Door?
Detroit Firefighters Steal a Door?
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Last Edited: Friday, 27 Mar 2009, 11:14 AM EDT
Created On: Wednesday, 25 Mar 2009, 10:17 PM EDT
DETROIT, Mich. - An alert FOX 2 viewer grabbed his camera when a fire truck rolled down his street, thinking he was going to get great pictures of heroes in action. What he got... was a big surprise. The firemen weren't putting out a fire. They were actually making the rounds checking fire hydrants. They also appeared to be doing a little shopping.
The Fire Department brass says the crew stopped at a vacant house to do a "pre-fire inspection," looking for potential hazards in the event they were ever called to that house to fight a fire. What they had a harder time explaining: why the fire fighters carried out a storm door. According to one Assistant Chief, there's no specific rule in Detroit Fire Department Guidelines that says fire fighters can't remove things from a vacant home. But that door is now evidence in a police investigation, and one fire fighter has been suspended with pay.
http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/subindex/news/prob_solvers
"Firefighters: Five
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Last Edited: Friday, 27 Mar 2009, 11:14 AM EDT
Created On: Wednesday, 25 Mar 2009, 10:17 PM EDT
DETROIT, Mich. - An alert FOX 2 viewer grabbed his camera when a fire truck rolled down his street, thinking he was going to get great pictures of heroes in action. What he got... was a big surprise. The firemen weren't putting out a fire. They were actually making the rounds checking fire hydrants. They also appeared to be doing a little shopping.
The Fire Department brass says the crew stopped at a vacant house to do a "pre-fire inspection," looking for potential hazards in the event they were ever called to that house to fight a fire. What they had a harder time explaining: why the fire fighters carried out a storm door. According to one Assistant Chief, there's no specific rule in Detroit Fire Department Guidelines that says fire fighters can't remove things from a vacant home. But that door is now evidence in a police investigation, and one fire fighter has been suspended with pay.
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Permalink Reply by John Rulli Jr. on
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Oh my come on guys we need to set the example not be it!
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Permalink Reply by Tony P on
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Interesting. "According to one Assistant Chief, there's no specific rule in Detroit Fire Department Guidelines that says fire fighters can't remove things from a vacant home." Why should a Fire Fepartment have any such rules? Don't laws about theft already cover that sort of behaviour? Having said that, perhaps permission had been given by the property owner for the member to take the door. Who knows, not me. There's a police investigation underway, I'll leave the whole matter in their hands.
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