One dark night in the township of Kaitaia, New Zealand, 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.
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. But still the fire companies could not get
through.
From the distance, a lone siren was heard as another fire
truck came into sight. It was the nearby
Taneatua 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 local TV station caught the thank you on film and asked
their chief, "What are you going to do with all that money?"
"Well," said Hohepa, the 70-year-old fire chief,
"The first thing we gonna do is fix the brakes on that truck.
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."
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.
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