Italian Firefighters

 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 center 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, the
 70-year-old fire chief, "de fursta tinga we  gonnna do isza fixa uppa de
 brakes on dat fockinna truck!!"