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...Alan Henney likes to listen. "I primarily listen to police, fire, the Federal Government and some business users," says the 29-year-old graduate student, who lives with his parents in suburban Maryland. "The Park Police, the Secret Service, Smithsonian security, the Federal Protective Service, the U.S. marshals, the Drug Enforcement Administration." He pauses. "The shops at Union Station, campus security, building security officers, the security guards at Fort Lincoln Cemetery...
Cemetery? Oh, yes. "It's kind of a rough neighborhood," Henney elaborates. "There's often security trouble, people being mugged. You just never know who's gonna pop up on a radio frequency...
Then there are the true fanatics like Henney, who spends 14 hours a day monitoring police, private security and rescue squads in the Washington-Baltimore corridor. "It's like Cops," he says. "It's real time. It's unfiltered. You don't know what's going to happen next...
...folks want to. Henney is a volunteer dispatcher for the Breaking News Network, a paging service that alerts local TV producers, free-lance photographers and insurance-claims adjusters to fires, accidents and shootings. Larry Van Horn, assistant editor of Monitoring Times, once overheard some fleeing criminals and alerted the cops to their whereabouts. "There are probably more instances where people have helped the police and fire fighters," he says, "than people who have misused the technology...
Specialists on the Petrel, based at Charleston, S.C., with the Bonefish, "will make an assessment when it is safe to board the Bonefish. They have the expertise and the equipment to test the toxicity of the air" inside the boat, said Lt. Fred Henney, another fleet spokesman...