Trail Conditions: Good to very good..
Weather: 2 more inches.
Cold temps and a few more inches of fresh snow. March is going to be fantastic sledding up here in the UP. Need I say more?
One night outside a
> small town, a fire started inside the local chemical
> plant. In the blink of an eye, it exploded into
> massive flames. The alarm went out to all fire
> departments for miles around. When the volunteer fire
> fighters appeared on the scene, the chemical company
> president rushed to the fire chief and said, “All our
> secret formulas are in the vault in the center of the plant.
> They must be saved. I’ll give $50,000 to the fire
> department that brings them out
> intact”.
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>
>
>
>
> But the roaring flames
> held the firefighters 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 department who could save the
> company’s secret files.
>
>
>
>
>
> From the distance, a
> lone siren was heard as another fire truck came into sight.
> It was the area’s Chasidic Township Volunteer Fire
> Company composed mainly of Jewish, ultra-orthodox men over
> the age of 65.
>
>
>
>
>
> To everyone’s
> amazement, that little broken-down fire engine roared right
> past all the sleek newer 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 in amazement and disbelief as the Chasidic
> 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
> Chasidic old timers had extinguished the fire and 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
> thank each of the brave Jewish fire fighters personally. 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?”
>
>
>
>
>
> “Vell,” said
> Moishe Epstein, the 70-year-old fire
> chief,
>
>
> “Da foist ting ve
> gonna do is fix da brakes on dis fucking
> truck.”