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Posted 10 months ago

 

I Found this on the net
The Volunteers
One dark night outside a small town, a fire started inside the local chemical plant. Before long it exploded into flames and an alarm went out to fire departments from miles around.
After fighting the fire for over an hour, the chemical company president approached the fire chief and said, "All of our secret formulas are in the vault in the center of the plant. They must be saved! I will give $50,000 to the engine company that brings them out safely!"
As soon as the chief heard this, he ordered the firemen to strengthen their attack on the blaze. After two more hours of attacking the fire, the president of the company offered $100,000 to the engine company that could bring out the company's secret files.
From the distance a long siren was heard and another fire truck came into sight. It was a local volunteer fire company composed entirely of men over 65. To everyone's amazement the little fire engine raced through the Chemical plant gates and drove straight into the middle of the inferno. In the distance the other firemen watched as the old timers hopped off of their rig and began to fight the fire with an effort that they had never seen before.
After an hour of intense fighting the volunteer company had extinguished the fire and saved the secret formulas. Joyous, the chemical company president announced that he would double the reward to $200,000 and walked over to personally thank each of the volunteers. After thanking each of the old men individually, the president asked the group what they intended to do with the reward money.
The fire truck driver looked him right in the eye and said, "The first thing we're going to do is fix the dang brakes on that truck!"


Be safe
Buddy

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Rate This | Posted 10 months ago

 

There must be a hundred versions of that one.


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Rate This | Posted 10 months ago

 

That's pretty funny

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Rate This | Posted 10 months ago

 

That's the funniest thing I have ever read.... I love it!! It sounds so much like our trucks though. One of our local depts. the other day was responding to a fire.... he was asking for directions from 911 to get to where he was going as he was mutual aid to another dept. After he got directions he said OK... now everyone MOVE away from where I have to turn in because I HAVE NO BRAKES!!!!

Needless to say the next thing I heard on the radio was a FF from that station telling his wife/ff to go to the station and get a crescent wrench and BRAKE FLUID!!!

Scary that they didn't think to check that on OFF TIME!!

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Rate This | Posted 10 months ago

 

thats a good one


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Rate This | Posted 10 months ago

 

sounds like some people on another vol dept that i know off

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Rate This | Posted 9 months ago

 

thats good almost sounds like my dept.

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Rate This | Posted 7 months ago

 

Thats great!!

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Rate This | Posted 7 months ago

 

ok that is funny but oh so old!!!!!!!!!

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Rate This | Posted 7 months ago

 

Lol, sounds like 281. I can hear the chief now. "If you wouldn't drive so **** fast we wouldn't have to change the **** brakes so much! And which one of you ******* idiots forgot to check the transmission fluid before training the other day?!"

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Rate This | Posted 7 months ago

 

Sounds alot like our small city volunteer dept. We have 6 trucks: 2 engines(1-1972), 1 rescue, 1 attack, 1 brush p/u, 1 medic unit p/u. A few months ago, the only responding trucks were the medic and the 1972 Le France. Small issues on others but enough to be out of service for a short time. We have since retired the Le France.

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Rate This | Posted 5 months ago

 

Sounds like my dept. I had a problem with the brakes on our engine not working 100%. They worked, they just squeaked real bad.


 


I sent numerous requests to maintenance division to fix it, they replied as long as they worked.. Be happy.


 


So I made up a T-shirt logo for them that read:


HCFR Maintenance Division


We can't fix your brakes.


So we made your air horns louder !

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Rate This | Posted 15 days ago

 

Thats a great joke, some departments though really have that problem

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Rate This | Posted about 16 hours ago

 

Had not heard that one before...that was pretty good!