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• Firefighters with Essex County (England) Fire and Rescue Service were called to a derelict laundromat in Epping on Oct. 30, where three young men had become trapped inside an industrial-sized tumble dryer.
Two of them had climbed all the way into the dryer, while the third had managed to get his ankles trapped in the door.
Firefighters were joined by Essex Police, a medical helicopter and the ambulance service as they employed "a lot of heavy equipment" to free the men, watch manager Glenn Jackson told Sky News.
No word on what they were looking for in there. [Sky News, 10/31/2020]
• The San Diego City Council blocked funding last summer for its controversial smart streetlights program, which features not only streetlights but also a video surveillance system that has been used by the San Diego Police Department, and on Sept. 9, Mayor Kevin Faulconer ordered the cameras turned off.
But Voice of San Diego reported the cameras and streetlights are connected to the same power supply, so turning them off would have left the city in the dark.
Florida-based Ubicquia owns the underlying technology, but the company has been reluctant to work with the city because of unpaid bills amounting to $771,000.
Meanwhile, the cameras are still recording and storing footage for five days. [Voice of San Diego, 11/2/2020]