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Date: Wed Sep 5, 2001 11:16pm

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There has been a headline posting Openness.org:

http://www.ananova.com/news/story.php?datafile=sm_389068.insdat&menu=

Dutch Scannist Saves Two Lives

In a steller example of the benefits of wide-area notification and absorbtion

provided by police scanners, a woman and her daughter were rescued from a house

fire by a local amatuer radio operator listening in on police calls illegally.

The report indicates that the Dutch operator will not be prosecuted. Similarly,

local media in Tampa Florida reported that an off-duty paramedic with a police

scanner was directly responsible for saving the lives of two police officers

shot by fleeing robbers in March 1995. At the time of that incident, most calls

in Tampa and Hillsborough County were analog non-trunked. Public safety tends

to scoff at these reports suggesting in policy that a woman and her daughter,

and two police officers, would be better off dead than keeping primary dispatch

signals analog.

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