Post by Baloo on Jan 23, 2004 13:49:55 GMT -5
Subject: Chicano Firemen
The Alarm went out to the fire departments from miles around.
When the volunteer fire fighters appeared on the scene, the chemical 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....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 presidents 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 rural "Colonia El Rincon" volunteer fire company composed entirely of viejos over 65.
To everyone's amazement, the little run-down fire engine operated by this Chicano Fire Department 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 Chicano old timers jumped off and began to fight the fire with a performance and effort never seen before.
Within a short time, the Chicano old timers had extinguished the fire and saved the secret formulas. The grateful chemical 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, Chicano fire fighters.
The local TV news reporters rushed in after capturing the event on film asking, "What are you going to do with all that money"?
"Pues," said Tacho Garza, the 70-year-old fire chief, "the first thing we are going to do is fix the pinche brakes on that chingada troca!"
The Alarm went out to the fire departments from miles around.
When the volunteer fire fighters appeared on the scene, the chemical 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....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 presidents 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 rural "Colonia El Rincon" volunteer fire company composed entirely of viejos over 65.
To everyone's amazement, the little run-down fire engine operated by this Chicano Fire Department 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 Chicano old timers jumped off and began to fight the fire with a performance and effort never seen before.
Within a short time, the Chicano old timers had extinguished the fire and saved the secret formulas. The grateful chemical 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, Chicano fire fighters.
The local TV news reporters rushed in after capturing the event on film asking, "What are you going to do with all that money"?
"Pues," said Tacho Garza, the 70-year-old fire chief, "the first thing we are going to do is fix the pinche brakes on that chingada troca!"
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