Firefighters One night a fire started inside the local sausage factory.In a blink the building was engulfed in flames.
The alarm went out to all the fire departments for miles around.
When the first volunteer fire fighters appeared on the scene, the sausage company president rushed to the fire chief and said,
"All of our secret sausage recipes are in the vault in the center of the plant. They must be saved. I will donate $50,000 to the fire department that brings them out and delivers them to me."
But the roaring flames held the firefighters off. Soon more fire departments had to be called in because the situation became desperate. As the firemen arrived, the president shouted out that the offer to extricate the secret recipes was now $100,000 to the fire department that could save them.
Suddenly from up the road, a lone siren was heard as another fire truck came into sight. It was the fire engine of the nearby volunteer fire department composed mainly of firefighters over the age of 65.
To everyone's amazement, the little run-down fire engine operated by these firefighters passed fire engines parked outside the plant and drove straight into the middle of the inferno hoses blasting away.
Outside, the other firemen watched in amazement as the old timers jumped off and continued to fight the fire with a performance that was as if they were fighting to save their own lives.
Within a short time, the old timers had extinguished the fire and saved the secret recipes.
The grateful sausage company president joyfully announced that for such a superhuman accomplishment he was upping the reward to $200,000, and walked over to personally thank each of the brave elderly firefighters.
A TV news crew rushed in after capturing the event on film. The one camera' reporter asked the fire chief, "What are you going to do with all that money?"
"Well," said the 70-year-old fire chief, "The first thing we're going to do is fix the damn brakes on that there truck.
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