First, it does not appear to be an issue if you d/l the AM and run w/o updater...dunno why. Secondly, the initial problem seems to be from SC telling a sim to rummage in the trash when that's not actually a valid command. Dunno about the firefighter stuff, haven't messed with it.
Deleting the awesome.package file and d/l it again (from the
AWESOMEMOD! SHINY! thread) didn't produce any changes. The build information still appears to be the same. The crashes still occur at the same times, under the same conditions.