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Pastimes : Don't Ask Rambi
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To: Gauguin who wrote (13851)10/22/1998 3:42:00 PM
From: Justin C  Read Replies (2) of 71178
 
I was witness to a similar fire in a pickup truck. I was
entering the small town of Fayetteville, TX, and spotted a
pickup approaching me a block or two away near the
town square. In the cab was a young couple, and in the
rear was the silhouette of their household possessions in
a cloud of smoke. Townfolk were running into the street
toward them and yelling and gesturing wildly. As I pulled up
abreast of them, the couple was stopped and a fellow was
pointing directions to the nearby fire station.

Naturally I had to stop and observe the end of this story.
It likely will be the only time I will ever see the fire come
to the fire station. The fire-carrying pickup roared up to
the station, and the driver jumped out and pounded on the closed
door of the one-truck station. Finally the on-duty fireman emerged
rubbing his eyes, apparently having been awakened from
a nap. In what seemed like an interminable length of time,
he raised the large door, rolled out the pumper truck and
extinguished what had become a roaring blaze.

The culprit was a portable barbecue pit with live embers that
had been placed in the bottom of the pickup bed. (Actually
I don't think we say "embers" in Texas. Probably "hot coals"
or something like that.)

News of the little disaster travelled quickly. What appeared to
be most of the town's population soon arrived, turning the event
into an impromptu social occasion.
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