We knew right then and there that we had fire, a lot of fire.

In off-the-record interviews with us, Frey admitted embellishing facts in the book for dramatic impact.

The only stuff we looked at were incidents for which there are a paper trail ... (and) everything we looked up was full of lies. (Winfrey said) the belief this book is changing the lives of people trumps the fact that maybe the story is a fake. You would expect somebody in her position would take the ethical stand.

It's not often we have people who have been convicted of a crime -- in her case took a plea -- and have been photographed, booking photo taken, under supervised release, that they would think that the distribution of their police photo shouldn't be done. That's a new one for us.

Right now the volunteer fire services are really struggling because you don't find the guy who closes the gas station and runs down the street and jumps on a fire engine anymore. The times have changed.

We are not going to allow the right of companies to fire at the snap of a finger to become entrenched in French law. We are not going to allow France to operate under the same rules as the socially most backward countries.