(CNN) — For listeners of police scanners, last week’s tragic events offered one real-time drama after another. During the fertilizer plant explosion in Texas that claimed 14 lives and the Boston ...

Jul. 17—At age 10, Charles Grant accidentally overheard police radio chatter on his father's scanner about activity a block away from his parents' Toledo home. That episode — the exact nature of which ...

Wen Gutreuter considers herself a safety-conscious resident who likes to stay abreast of news in her community. The 50-year-old mother of three said the fastest and most useful information she gets ...

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