Sausage factory fire

One dark night in the small town of Garfield , NJ, a fire started
inside the local sausage factory. In a blink the building was
engulfed in flames. The alarm went out to all the fire departments for
miles around.

When the first volunteer fire fighters appeared on the scene, the
sausage company president rushed to the fire chief and said,
"All of our secret sausage recipes are in the vault in the cente r of the
plant. They must be saved. I will donate $50,000 to the fire department
that brings them out and delivers them to me."

But the roaring flames held the firefighters off. Soon more
fire departments had to be called in because the situation became
desperate. As the firemen arrived, the president shouted out that the offer
to extricate the secret recipes was now $100,000 to the fire department that
could save them.

Suddenly from up the road, a lone siren was heard as another fire
truck came into sight. It was the fire engine of the nearby Lodi, NJ
volunteer fire department composed mainly of Italian firefighters
over the age of 65.

To everyone's amazement, the little run-down fire engine, operated by
these Italian firefighters, passed fire engines parked outside the plant,
and drove straight into the middle of the inferno. Outside, the other
firemen watched in amazement as the Italian old timers jumped off
and began to fight the fire with a performance that was as if they were
fighting to save their own lives Within a short time, the Lodi old timers
had extinguished the fire and saved the secret recipes.

The grateful sausage company president joyfully announced that for
such a superhuman accomplishment he was upping the reward to
$200,000, and walked over to personally thank each of the brave elderly
Italian firefighters.

A TV news crew rushed in after capturing the event on film.
The 'on camera' reporter asked the Italian fire chief, "What are you
going to do with all that money?"

"Wella," said Chief Pasquale De Luccinellavanti, the70-year-old fire
chief, "de fursta tinga we gonnna do isza fixa uppa de brakes on
dat fockinna truck!!"