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To: Jenna who wrote (29050)3/23/1999 1:37:00 PM
From: Adelle  Read Replies (1) of 120523
 
O.T. O.T.
Story for the mid-day doldrums:

>SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT THE NEXT TIME YOU'RE HAVING A BAD DAY
>
>Fire Authorities in California found a corpse in a burnt out section of
>forest while assessing the damage done by a forest fire. The deceased
>male was dressed in a full wet suit, complete with a dive tank, flippers,
and
>facemask. A post-mortem examination revealed that the person died not from
>burns
>but from massive internal injuries. Dental records provided a positive
>identification. Investigators then set about determining how a fully clad
>diver ended up in the middle of a forest fire.
>
>It was revealed that, on the day of the fire, the person went for a diving
>trip off the coast-some 20 miles away from the forest. The firefighters,
>seeking to control the fire as quickly as possible, called in a fleet of
>helicopters with very large buckets. The buckets
>were dropped into the ocean for rapid filling, then flown to the forest
>fire and emptied. You guessed it. One minute our diver was making like
>Flipper in the Pacific, the next he was doing a breaststroke in a fire
>bucket 300 feet in the air. Some days it just doesn't pay to get out of
bed.
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