Fire in Mundare

One dark night outside Mundare, a small town in Alberta , a fire started inside the local sausage plant and in a blink it exploded 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 who 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 volunteer fire department composed mainly of Ukrainians over the age of 65.
To everyone's amazement, the little run-down fire engine, operated by these Ukrainians, 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 Ukrainian 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, though elderly, Ukrainian 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?"
"Vell," said Nick Sputski, the 70-year-old fire chief, ".....da furst thing vee gonna do is fix da brakes on dat damn truck."

Re: Fire in Mundare

Not new, but still funny.

Re: Fire in Mundare

When I first moved out to the country the local (Isanti, MN) volunteer fire department operated like the keystone cops. It seemed their goal was to either stick or break all their equipment as quickly as possible.

I had a small 1 ton rigged for grass fire fighting, so forestry hired me to help out. One windy day, a fire started in an open swampy area a couple of miles North of me.

The wind was from the South. I came into the field from the south, promply got stuck. A tracked tanker (Bombadier) had just run out of water close to me, so they came over, I dumped my bulk tank into theirs to lighten up while they hooked up a jerk strap. Inside of 3 minutes, they were loaded and I was free. I backtracked and came into the farm yard on the North side just in time to see 3 Isanti trucks try to cross a low spot in high grass and get stuck. A 62 year old forester flew through between them with an ordinary 4x4(with relative ease) and went to work. He didn't have enough water to head the fire, but he poked through it and helped on the back side. It was fun to watch the firemen laying under their trucks defending them as the fire went right over them.

While they were saving their bacon, I extinguished about 2 dozen fires that were starting on a cedar barn roof with 10 gallons of water in a high pressure extinguisher. Cambridge then showed up with a water hog and soaked the barn down, saving it.

Farmers showed up with big field equipment and plowed a fire break in a few minutes. Cambridge units 2 and 3 headed and extinguished the fire. Nobody would even throw the Isanti Keystone Cops a jerk strap.

The Ukranian firefighter story brought to memory the crazy scene of 8 men laying under their trucks with hoses defending them.

Re: Fire in Mundare

What was he cooking a bacon explosion