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  steve poling, Sep 13th, 2003 @ 10:23am

  
  

  sounds like a bradbury novel

  it's simple to understand why firemen want to read your email. It's to findout if you've got any books so that they can torch them at Farenheit 451.

   

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  micm, Sep 13th, 2003 @ 4:42pm

  
  

  It's not so stupid..

  Post Bain reveiw, fire crews are supposed to move their focus from fighting fires to fire prevention. This means doing some work to catch arsonists and so on. Also the main cause of injury to firefighters these days is assault rather than fire/smoke related.
  Of course before the police would be involved with these types of thing, but the option is now there to remove the middle man where it makes sense. For example think of someone making repeated hoax calls to 999 (112 etc) - before it would have to be raised to the police and there would be a whole load of messing about whilst not a lot happened. Under the new laws the Fire Brigade (Fire Department) can request phone records directly from the phone companies directly. That's just one example, there are many more which I shan't go in to.
  Of course you could argue that the police should be more efficient at dealing with requests of behalf of the other emergency services in which case they probably wouldn't be asking for access to this stuff...

   

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  Anonymous Coward, Sep 13th, 2003 @ 10:51pm

  
  

  For cases when someone sends a suicide note via em

  For cases when someone sends a suicide note via email, they need to locate the person.
  
  Story says warrent is required.
  
  Like someone else said, can't police handle this stuff for the fire service?

   

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  Anonymous Coward, Sep 14th, 2003 @ 2:05am

  
  

  The answer is very simple (but thelogic is contort

  See, firemen were kill on 9/11; so, the get invited to the freedom killing party that "authorities" in the US are now currently having.

   

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  cemal tarik ipcioglu, Sep 1st, 2006 @ 1:41am

  
  

  im fireman

  im a firemen. im from turkey but i workıng now unıted arab emırates quıck ınterventıon unıt.but ı want workıng new country and i need good work.mybe some contry want fireman ım here. tarik_09_tr@hotmail.com.. send me msjj..

   

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