Norwegian Volunteer Fire Dept

 

 

One dark night outside a small town in Minnesota, a fire started inside the local
chemical plant and in a blink of an eye it exploded into massive flames. The
alarm went out to all the fire departments for miles around.

 When the volunteer fire fighters appeared
on the scene, the chemical company president rushed to the fire chief and said,
"All 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
Norwegian rural township volunteer fire company composed mainly of Norwegians
over the age of 65. To everyone's amazement, that little run-down fire engine
roared right past all the newer sleek engines that were parked outside the
plant.

 

Without even slowing
down it drove straight into the middle of the inferno. Outside, the other
firemen watched as the Norwegian old timers jumped off right in the middle of
the fire fought it back on all sides.  It was a performance and effort
never seen before.

Within a short time,
the Norske old timers had extinguished the fire and had saved the secret
formulas. The grateful chemical company president 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 fire fighters.

The local TV news
reporter rushed in to capture the event on film, asking their chief, "What
are you going to do with all that money?"

 

"Vell," said
Ole Larsen, the 70-year-old fire chief, "Da first thing ve gonna do is fix
da brakes on dat focking truck!"

 

Thanks Pat