[Loch-Ruadh] senior firemen you gotta read this one!!!!!!

[Tim Cantley]

This one's for Dunstan :)

Sean



One dark night outside a small town, a fire started inside the local
chemical plant and in a blink it exploded into flames. The alarm went out to
the fire departments from miles around. When the volunteer fire fighters
appeared on the scene, the chemical company president rushed to the fire
chief and said, "All of our secret formulas are in the vault in the center
of the plant. They must be saved. I will give $50,000 to the fire department
that brings them out intact. But the roaring flames held the firefighters
off. Soon more fire departments had to be called in as the situation became
desperate. As the firemen arrived, the president shouted out that the offer
was now $100,000 to the fire department who could bring out the company's
secret files. From the distance, a lone siren was heard as another fire
truck came into sight. It was the nearby rural township volunteer fire
company composed entirely of men over the age of 65. To everyone's
amazement, the little run-down fire engine passed all the newer sleek
engines parked outside the plant.....and drove straight into the middle of
the inferno. Outside the other firemen watched as the old timers jumped off
and began to fight the fire with a performance and effort never seen before.
Within a short time, the old timers had extinguished the fire and saved the
secret formulas. The grateful chemical company president joyfully announced
that for such a superhuman feat he was upping the reward to $200,000, and
walked over to personally thank each of the brave, though elderly, fire
fighters. The local TV news reporters rushed in after capturing the event on
film asking, "What are you going to do with all that money "? "Well," said
the 70-year-old fire chief, "the first thing we are going to do is fix the
brakes on that friggin' truck!"

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