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  • SF Fire Dept. SUV taken for a joyride

    08/15/2005 12:29:27 PM PDT · by SmithL · 1 replies · 173+ views
    San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 8/15/5 | Suzanne Herel
    San Francisco -- Someone swiped a San Francisco Fire Department SUV overnight while its driver was busy with a paramedic call and took it for a short joyride before crashing it into several parked vehicles and fleeing, authorities said. Paramedics were answering a call on the 600 block of Grove Street shortly before 1 a.m. when a fire department supervisor inadvertently left one of the doors to his SUV unlocked, said fire department spokesman Pete Howes. Howes said that when fire department vehicles block a lane, it is standard procedure to leave them running and locked so their flashing lights...