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One dark night outside a small town in Saskatchewan
(that's on the Prairies in Western Canada), a fire started
inside the local sausage plant, and in a blink it
exploded into massive flames.

The alarm went out to all the fire departments from
miles around. When the volunteer fire fighters
appeared on the scene, the sausage company president
rushed to the fire chief and said, "All of our secret
formulas are in the vault in the centre of the plant.
They must be saved. I'll give $50,000 to the fire
department that brings them out intact."

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 department who could bring out
the company's secret files. From the distance, a lone
siren was heard as another fire truck came into sight.
It was the nearby Yorkton rural township Volunteer
Fire Department, composed mainly of Ukrainians over
the age of 65.

To everyone's amazement, the little run-down fire
engine, operated by these Ukrainians, passed all the
newer sleek engines parked outside the plant, and
drove straight into the middle of the inferno.

Outside the other firemen watched as the Ukrainian
old timers jumped off and began to fight the fire with
a performance and effort never seen before.

Within a short time, the Yorkton old-timers had
extinguished the fire and saved the secret formulas.

The grateful sausage company president joyfully
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, though elderly,
Ukrainian fire-fighters.

The local TV news reporters rushed in after
capturing the event on film, asking, "What are you
going to do with all that money?"

"Vell," said Nick Sputski, the 70-year-old Fire Chief,
"... da furst ting vee gonna do is fix da brakes on
dat focking truck."