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Sunday, November 24, 2024 |
Sourdough Firefighters   
Date: Sent Thursday, December 11, 2008
Category: None | Rating: 3.06/5 (391 votes)
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One night out in rural Alaska, a fire started inside the local fuel plant.
Before long, it exploded into flames, and an alarm went out to the local volunteer fire department.
After fighting the fire for over an hour, the fuel company president approached a fireman and said, "All of our secret formulas are in the vault in
the center of the plant. I will give your department $50,000 if you can bring me the plans!"
As soon as the chief heard this, he ordered another fire engine, pronto.
All that was left was a backup reserve group of firefighters over at the station situated way up on top of a hill five miles away.
When the phone call came in from the dispatcher, the ol' sourdough firefighters, none younger than 65 years old, were playing poker, smoking cigars,
and talking about the old pioneer gold mining days way back when. They all rushed into their gear, meandered over to their old beat-up fire truck, and
drove down the hill toward the blaze at the fuel plant.
The little fire engine raced smack dab into a crowd of people, including a television news crew, running over fire hoses, just missing firefighters
and equipment, and stopping right in the middle of the blazing inferno.
In the distance the other firemen watched as the old sourdoughs hopped off of their rig and began to fight the fire with an effort that they had never
seen before.
After 15 minutes of intense firefighting, the old timers had extinguished the fire and saved the secret formulas.
Joyous, the fuel company president announced to the news crew that he would double the reward to $100,000 and walked over to personally thank each of
the old sourdoughs. After thanking them individually, the news crew interviewed the men and asked what they intended to do with the 100 grand.
The fire truck driver looked straight into the camera and said, "The first thing we're gonna do is fix them dang brakes on that truck!"
Received from Stephen L Fields.
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