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Originally Posted by chummer
So we get a call at Firehall 18 at 5 this morning for a vehicle fire on Deerfoot and 64th.
Dispatch tells me it is a semi and I ask for another Engine in case it's fully involved.
We turn south on Deerfoot and I see the semi,no smoke or fire,but there was oil everywhere.
I specifically told our dispatch there was no fire and I cancelled the other Engine.The driver was able to limp the truck off deerfoot before it shut down on the McKnight turn off.
So I'm driving home and I hear on the radio there was a semi on fire at Deerfoot and 64th.I know the media listens to our scanners but wtf?? Don't let the facts get in the way of a good story I guess.
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The quality of what passes for "journalism" has taken a huge nose dive in the past 2 years in my opinion. I mean news/reporting have never been able to get all the facts right, but it seems like most media outlets have laid of all their fact checkers, and honestly don't even pretend to bother anymore.
As much as I love twitter I'm sick of seeing stories like "locals upset with traffic delays!" followed by 15-20 embedded tweets.