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Mon 06 Jun 2009Don't pay the fireman?
WHAT'S THE STORY WITH CHARGING FOR EMERGENCY SERVICES?
PRICEWATCH WAS recently contacted by a woman who had been involved in a minor car accident in Carrick-on-Shannon in which, fortunately, no one was hurt. Unfortunately, her wallet did not escape so lightly: she was subsequently hit with a bill of more than €1,000 for a fire brigade which came to the scene of the crash despite neither being called nor, she claims, needed.
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