As fires grew, so did profiles of 'scanner' X accounts reporting what they heard
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"It's tragic to be honest to listen to these fires and to just hear we have a home burning and there's nothing we can do about it," said Jack Quillin, 22, who runs @LAScanner. 'Several times over the scanner I've heard firefighters say, 'We need more resources,' and the incident commander says, 'We don't have any.'"
"It is almost impossible to stop listening since almost every transmission has important information," said the man who runs the @ScannerPacific account, who requested anonymity out of safety concerns related to his work.
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