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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A simple search for stolen equipment or a violation of rights? When thousands of dollars worth of firefighting equipment went missing, Albuquerque firefighters took to the streets to find it, but the way they did it has some crying foul.
There doesn’t seem to be any emergency, but these firefighters are in a hurry for something. It’s why one Albuquerque native got out her phone, Monday, and started recording.
“I saw the Albuquerque Fire Department randomly stopping anybody they saw on the street,” she said. The photographer asked we hide her identity. She says it happened near Dallas and Central. Firefighters questioning people on the street, searching their bags, even having them turn their pockets inside out.
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