Originally Posted by
DonDon
One dark night in the small town of Garfield, NJ, 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
secretsausage recipes are in the vault in the center of the plant. They
have to be saved, so I will donate $50,000 to the fire company 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 Lodi, NJ volunteer fire department composed mainly of Italian
firefighters over the age of 65.
To everyone's amazement, the little run-down fire engine,
operated by these Italian firefighters, passed fire engines
parked outside the plant, and drove straight into the middle of the
inferno.
Outside, the other firemen watched in amazement as the Italian old timers
jumped off and began to fight the fire as if they were fighting to save
their own lives. Within a short time, the Lodi 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 raising the reward to $200,000, and
walked over to personally thank each of the brave elderly Italian
firefighters.
A TV news crew rushed in after capturing the event on film. The 'on
camera' reporter asked the Italian fire chief, 'What are you going to do
with all that money?'
'Wella,' said Chief Pasquale De Luccinelli, the 70-year-old fire chief,
'de fursta tinga we gonnna do isza fixa de brakes on dat fockinna truck!!'
