Firefighters from Escarrapicheira

Background: Firefighters in portugal is a volunteer job. I.e. most firefighters don't live out of "fire-fighting" or driving ambulances, assisting in road accidents etc... Although some firefighters do it full-time - they are still always referred to as "the volunteers".
Also another curiosity the portuguese word for firefighters "bombeiros" would litteraly mean "pumpers" :D (from pumping the old-days pumps)

Please forgive me if the wording doesn't fully sound brittish but i'll be trying to translate as close to the original as possible.

Enjoy!

Yours,
Dany L

Volunteers of Escarrapicheira (funny town name in Portugal: maybe a myth-name ...)

A fire kicked off at a countryside property.
The firefighters were immediatelly called out to extinguish the flames.
The fire was ever more strong, and the firefighters couldn't dominate the flames.

The situation was becoming out of control, when somebody suggested calling the volunteer group of Escarrapicheira.

In spite of some doubts about abilities and equipment of the volunteers, it would always be another form of help. And so it was.

The volunteers arrived in an old vehicle, worn out by the years and operations of fighting.
They passed by in great speed and headed on a straight line towards the center of the fire!

They went right into the middle of the flames and only then they stopped.
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Astonished the locals watched it all:

The volunteers jumped out of the truck and started pulverizing

frantically in all directions!

Since they were right in the middle of the fire, the flames divided, and finaly there was left two portions easily controlable.

Impressed with the work of the volunteers of Escarrapicheira, the owner of the property had a breath of relief when he saw his homestead spared from the devastation of the flames.
In the same hour he stuck his hands deep in the pocket and immediately wrote a cheque of 10.000 euros to the volunteers corporation.

A local newspaper reporter at the location straightaway asked the comander of the firefighters:
- "10.000 euros! Have you already thought what you're doing to the money?"

– "I think its obvious, isn't it?" - replies the comander shaking ashes off the helmet...





- "The first thing we will do is fixing the bloddy brakes of the vehicle!!!"



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