We live in a suburb surrounded by townships. Each township
has a volunteer fire department. These
tend to be great groups of guys and gals who enjoy helping people. A couple of
years ago one of the townships had a training exercise where they set an
abandoned house on fire and the firemen then come and extinguish it. Well, the fire was lit, and soon the house
was engulfed in flames, all Halloween orange. They let the fire get going
really well before the firemen arrived. The firemen arrived and the flames were almost out when the
trainer got a call asking why they hadn’t started the fire yet. It turns out they had burned the wrong house.
True story! I never heard the details whether the house they burned was inhabited or not,
but I don’t think there were any deaths at least.
Hey, it could have been worse maybe. I wonder if firemen
have ever arrived on the scene and hosed somebody down who had requested
medical treatment. I’ve not heard of this happening but I bet it’s happened
somewhere. Please write to us here at Uncle
Tommy if this has happened to you.
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