Man trips radiation detector three times

My Way News:
"[San Diego County] Sheriff's deputies pulled over the driver and detained him and his passenger for about one hour while they confirmed that the man was not carrying a nuclear weapon and that he had received radiation treatment, according to Sgt. Robert Healey."

It's hard to know which is worst, that merely receiving medical radiation treatments would trigger an alarm on fire department radiation detector or that the man in this case triggered such a radiation alarm on an Escondido fire truck three times before he was stopped and questioned by police. At least we know the radiation detectors being handed out by Homeland Security are highly sensitive, maybe too sensitive.

In my time in EMS we monitored the fire board on our radios. The acronym AFA indicated the call was initiated by an automatic fire alarm, but most firefighters called it an automatic false alarm and treated it as a nuisance call until there was evidence to the contrary. Any equipment that generates a high rate of false positives is likely to do more harm than good.