Fw: A chuckle from Mollies "mom"

Subject: Norwegian Firefighters

One dark night outside a small town near Poulsbo,
Washington, 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 wasnow
$100,000 to the fire department who could bring out
the company'ssecret
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 and 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 fireand
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 overto
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!"