Assistant chief fire officer Paul Southern said the smaller engine would "still have good capabilities to attend smaller fires".

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"I think it's unprecedented that a large file such as this is going to be distributed en masse, " said Jonathan Heiliger, chief executive officer of Frontier GlobalCenter, which runs the Yahoo search engine.

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