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

[Julie Self]

This is really good!  I'm going to send it on to my son-in-law, who is a
Ft.Worth firefighter.
Julie

Loch Ruadh Rocks!!





>From: "Tim Cantley" <yukon505 at hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: loch-ruadh at ansteorra.org
>To: loch-ruadh at ansteorra.org
>Subject: [Loch-Ruadh] senior firemen you gotta read this one!!!!!!
>Date: Sun, 06 Apr 2003 20:09:41 -0500
>
>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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