HUMOR

HUMOR

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One dark night outside Mundare, a small town East of Edmonton, in Alberta, a fire started inside the local sausage plant and, in a blink, it erupted into massive flames. The alarm went out to all the fire departments from miles around.

When the volunteer fire fighters appeared on the scene, the sausage-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, and 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 from surrounding towns 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 that could bring out the company’s secret files.

From a distance, a lone siren was heard as another fire truck came into sight. It was the nearby Smoky Lake Rural Township’s volunteer fire department composed mainly of retirees over the age of 65. To everyone’s amazement, the little run-down fire engine, operated by these retirees, passed all the newer sleek engines parked outside the plant and drove straight into the middle of the inferno.

The other firemen watched in amazement 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 Smoky Lake old-timers had extinguished the fire and saved the secret formulas.

The grateful sausage-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, retired firefighters.

The Edmonton TV-news reporters rushed in after capturing the event on film asking, “What are you going to do with all that money?” “Well,” said Nick Jones, the 70-year-old fire chief, “….. the first thing we are going to do is fix the brakes on that old fire truck!”