Spud Arson
How embarrassed is the Boise, Idaho fire department today after word got out about their most excellent Christmas Eve adventure? After all, it isn't every day that firemen get to fight a fire in their own firehouse - especially because of flaming potatoes.
Boise firefighters returning from a medical call had to turn their hose on the firehouse kitchen after an overheated pan full of Tater Tots melted and set some cabinets ablaze.
The Christmas Eve fire at Station 8 was quickly extinguished, with no injuries. No damage estimate was available.
Investigators were trying to determine why a computerized safety system that automatically turns off appliances when firefighters are called away apparently had not been activated.
Obviously, the spuds were smarter than the computer. Or the firemen.
Weird Stuff | Gaius Friday, 28 December , 2007
By Quilly Mammoth, Saturday, 29 December , 2007 @ 8:26 am
Clearly Veggies have formed an alliance with the Animal Uprising tm
By NortonPete, Saturday, 29 December , 2007 @ 9:42 am
I was on a small volunteer fire department for about 10 years. We were finally able to replace a 1950’s Ward with a 10 year old American Barton truck. We cleaned it up, took it out for a drill, briefly ran the siren, everything appeared ready for action. A week later there was a structure fire call. Five of us jump in the “new” truck and off we go sirens wailing.
Well after 3 minutes and fortunately just a mile from the fire, smoke starts pouring out from under the dash. An improperly wired siren started a fire. We rolled the windows down and arrived at the scene jumping out with more smoke coming from the truck than the house.
The chief who was already there yelled, “put the truck out first!”