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okazon69 Nov 14, 2007 10:25 am

CBP keeping the country safe!
 
Amazing: http://edition.cnn.com/2007/US/11/14...uck/index.html

A Canadian firetruck responding with lights and sirens to a weekend fire in Rouses Point, New York, was stopped at the U.S. border for about eight minutes, U.S. border officials said Tuesday.

...

Fire officials battling the blaze called for help from fire departments in nearby Quebec, using a longstanding and often-used mutual aid agreement. But the first truck that arrived at the small Rouses Point border crossing was delayed as officials checked documentation of the firefighters and their truck, officials confirmed.


ID checks are apparently required for fighting fires under a long-standing cross-border mutual-aid agreement.

Do you want to fly, ahem, burn today??? :D

doober Nov 14, 2007 10:47 am

Each time you read a story like this, whether it's related to the TSA or CPB, you wonder "Can it get any worse?" And each time it does get worse. Will it never end?

Caroline's Rub Nov 14, 2007 10:47 am

It doesn't surprise me...stupidity from both the US and CDN sides at the border seems to be the status quo.

Hopefully karma will kick in if they ever need a quick response to their homes...

Spiff Nov 14, 2007 10:59 am

"Better safe than scorched!"

Superguy Nov 14, 2007 12:28 pm


Originally Posted by Spiff (Post 8729167)
"Better safe than scorched!"

This story really burns my @$$. :D

stupidhead Nov 14, 2007 12:53 pm

"The terrorists are coming, where's my pen?" -Boston Legal-

whirledtraveler Nov 14, 2007 1:21 pm

Canadian firetruck responding to U.S. call held up at border
 
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/11/14/bor...uck/index.html


(CNN) -- A Canadian firetruck responding with lights and sirens to a weekend fire in Rouses Point, New York, was stopped at the U.S. border for about eight minutes, U.S. border officials said Tuesday.

Fire officials battling the blaze called for help from fire departments in nearby Quebec, using a longstanding and often-used mutual aid agreement. But the first truck that arrived at the small Rouses Point border crossing was delayed as officials checked documentation of the firefighters and their truck, officials confirmed.
Laughing stock of the world.

tom911 Nov 14, 2007 1:28 pm

Also being discussed in OMNI:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=757127

Peetah Nov 14, 2007 1:28 pm


A U.S. Customs and Border Protection official said the eight-minute delay at the Rouses Point crossing was caused "when one of the firefighters' admissibility was brought into question." He declined to elaborate, citing immigration and privacy laws.

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Kevin Corsaro of the border protection's Buffalo field office said the agency's primary responsibility is to protect the homeland.
I'd be willing to bet that if it were his house that they were responding to, that he'd let them through without any question.

whirledtraveler Nov 14, 2007 1:33 pm


Originally Posted by tom911 (Post 8730199)

Thanks. I only saw that after posting.

okazon69 Nov 14, 2007 3:05 pm

And here... http://flyertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=757136 ... Mods, time to close all these and refer to OMNI?

Global_Hi_Flyer Nov 14, 2007 9:48 pm

What was the quote I heard recently? Something like

We're not here for anyone's individual safety or protection, we're here to protect the government"
or something like that.

coachrowsey Nov 14, 2007 10:15 pm


Originally Posted by doober (Post 8729067)
Each time you read a story like this, whether it's related to the TSA or CPB, you wonder "Can it get any worse?" And each time it does get worse. Will it never end?


I was pretty much thinking the same.

whirledtraveler Nov 14, 2007 11:00 pm


Originally Posted by doober (Post 8729067)
Each time you read a story like this, whether it's related to the TSA or CPB, you wonder "Can it get any worse?" And each time it does get worse. Will it never end?

Sadly, I think it's going to take at least a generation. This generation has its panties too far done up in a wad.

thegeneral Nov 15, 2007 12:32 am

If they didn't do this, it would make for a large very easy way to smuggle a few tons of goods across the border would it not? It's not as if this is a normal occurance. I've crossed at the border points in Quebec about 50 times. I have never heard or seen any fire trucks racing for the border. The border police were doing their due diligence. Searching a truck, checking the ID's of all aboard and running the plate in 8 minutes isn't bad. The article doesn't note if this has happened before, how long it usually takes, etc. It still is a vehicle coming from another country.


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