New submitter niftymitch sends this quote from an article at SFGate: “San Francisco’s fire chief has explicitly banned firefighters from using helmet-mounted video cameras after images from a battalion chief’s Asiana Airlines crash recording became public and led to questions about first responders’ actions leading up to a fire rig running over a survivor. … Filming the scene may have violated both firefighters’ and victims’ privacy, Hayes-White said, trumping whatever benefit came from knowing what the footage shows. ‘There comes a time that privacy of the individual is paramount, of greater importance than having a video,’ Hayes-White said. Critics, including some within the department, questioned the chief’s order and its timing — coming as Johnson’s footage raised the possibility of Fire Department liability in the death of 16-year-old Ye Meng Yuan. .. [Battalion Chief Kevin Smith, president of the employee group that includes Johnson, said,] ‘The department seems more concerned with exposure and liability than training and improving efficiency. Helmet cams are the wave of the future – they can be used to improve communication at incidents between firefighters and commanders.'”… New submitter niftymitch sends this quote from an article at SFGate: “San Francisco’s fire chief has explicitly banned firefighters from using helmet-mounted video cameras after images from a battalion chief’s Asiana Airlines crash recording became public and led to questions about first responders’ actions leading up to a fire rig running over a survivor. … Filming the scene may have violated both firefighters’ and victims’ privacy, Hayes-White said, trumping whatever benefit came from knowing what the footage shows. ‘There comes a time that privacy of the individual is paramount, of greater importance than having a video,’ Hayes-White said. Critics, including some within the department, questioned the chief’s order and its timing — coming as Johnson’s footage raised the possibility of Fire Department liability in the death of 16-year-old Ye Meng Yuan. .. [Battalion Chief Kevin Smith, president of the employee group that includes Johnson, said,] ‘The department seems more concerned with exposure and liability than training and improving efficiency. Helmet cams are the wave of the future – they can be used to improve communication at incidents between firefighters and commanders.'”

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