dolluper
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One dark night outside a small town on Trinity Bay, a fire started<br />inside the little local church and in a blink of an eye it exploded into<br />massive flames.<br /><br />The alarm went out to all the fire departments for miles around. <br /><br />When the volunteer fire fighters appeared on the scene, the deacon of the church rushed to the fire chief and said, "All our vital records<br />from 1595 onward are in the vault in the back of the church Hall. They must be saved. American genealogists will give $10,000 to the fire department that brings them out intact."<br /><br />But the roaring flames held the firefighters off. Soon more fire<br />departments had to be called in as the situation became desperate.<br /><br />As the firefighters arrived, the deacon shouted out that the offer was<br />now $25,000 to the fire department who could bring out the church's<br />records.<br /><br />From the distanc e, a lone siren was heard as another fire truck came into sight. It was the nearby Harcourt, Trinity Bay, volunteer fire company composed mainly of Newfoundlanders 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 church.<br /><br />Without even slowing down it drove straight into the middle of the<br />inferno. Outside, the other firefighters watched as the Newfie old<br />timers jumped off right in the middle of the fire & fought it back on<br />all sides. It was a performance and effort never seen before.<br /><br />Within a short time, the Newfie old timers had extinguished the fire and had saved the church records.<br /><br />The grateful parishioners asked the deacon to announce that for such a superhuman feat they would match the American genealogists upping the reward to $50,000; he beamed as he walked over to personally thank each of the brave fire fighters.<br /><br />The local TV news reporter rushed in to capture the event on film,<br />asking their chief, "What are you going to do with all that money?"<br /><br />"Well," said Buddy Hughes, the 70-year-old vollie fire chief, "first<br />off, bejaysus, we'll fix them brakes on that (edit) truck!"
