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Are we safer or simply under more scrutiny by our government when we can be pulled over for being radioactive? One man may have the answer.
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Miami -
This is a story that raises two issues.
1. Why is there no way to screen people in positions of public safety, like fire fighters and cops, for racism?
2. If you are a racist firefighter or cop, why do you post your hatred on Facebook?
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Dallas -
In an unusual turn of events, a man allegedly robbed a Texas bank, then turned around and tipped the bank teller he'd just stolen from, according to media reports.
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New York -
Stephen Siller was supposed to be golfing with his brothers the day that his life ended. He had just finished his overnight shift and was on route home when he heard on his scanner about the World Trade Center. He turned around and headed for danger.
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Causing evacuation and threatening transmission lines, wildfires in Arizona continue to burn out of control almost two weeks after igniting. As of Wednesday more than 600 square miles have been consumed, according to reports from the area.
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Toronto -
Ryerson University will not be open today after a six-alarm fire in downtown Toronto broke out in the early morning hours Monday.
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Toronto -
An explosion at the intersection of Garden Avenue and Indian Road woke residents early this morning. The resulting three alarm fire destroyed a home that was being renovated.
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Fourteen firefighters who won a discrimination received their promotion badges today. The ceremony was more than just the promotion it was symbolic of their fight to get the promotions and their victory.
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A veteran firefighter in Asheville, North Carolina is suspected of shooting a man on Monday who was biking with his young son on a busy road.
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A Lake County firefighter has been arrested for child pornography, after it was found that he had over 300 images of child porn on his computer. The bail was set at $1.5 million and he has been "charged with hundreds of counts" for child pornography.
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Firefighter Headlines
 An investigation continues into the cause of a suspicious fire that destroyed a training facility for Halifax-area firefighters.
Six Chilean firefighters die battling the latest in a series of forest fires to ravage the south of the country.
 More than 30 firefighters responded to a major fire in Grand Falls-Windsor Tuesday morning.
Four firefighters died after being sent into "an obviously dangerous situation" in a blazing warehouse for no good reason, a court hears.
Thirteen firefighters are detained in France in connection with the alleged rape of a new recruit during an initiation ceremony, officials say.
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Photo by Andrea Booher/ FEMA News Photo
New York, NY, September 28, 2001 -- Firefighter watches debris removal at the World Trade Center from nearby roof.
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Firefighter Blogs
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It is not every Chicago-based director who will take time out to travel west and end up near the Mississippi River...
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