Win Stuff - NZ Competitions: The Fire Fighters - Win Stuff - NZ Competitions

One dark night outside a small town near Christchurch NZ, 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 fireman in charge and said, 'All our secret formulas

are in the vault in the centre 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 fire-fighters 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 was now $100,000

to the fire station who could bring out the company's secret files.

>From the distance, a lone siren was heard as another fire truck came into

sight. It was the nearby Maori rural township volunteer fire company

composed mainly of Maoris 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 Maori 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 old timers had extinguished the fire and 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

over to 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?'

'Well,' said Rangi, the 70-year-old fire chief, 'The first thing we

gonna do is fix the brakes on that fucking truck!'