THEY say three kinds of people instinctively run toward danger: journalists, police officers and firefighters.
That did not stop the Malaysian Fire and Rescue Department (JBPM) from getting slammed left and right after six personnel from its Water Rescue Unit drowned while on a mission to rescue a teen boy who went missing while fishing at an old mining pool in Puchong, Selangor, in October. The boy also perished in the failed mission.
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