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>            Italian Fire Department .. you don't need to be Italian 
to appreciate this. 
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>            One dark night in the small town in Cresskill , 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 
>            secret sausage 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 announced 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 Dumont, NJ Fire Co. #3 . The 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 Dumont Fire Co.#3 
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!!'