So...
The Winthrop, MN Fire Dept. gets an alarm. One of the grain elevators just caught fire on the edge of town. They rush out to the elevator with their two trucks and start fighting the blaze but grain elevators are hard to put out once they get going. So they put out a call for mutual aid from Gaylord and Gibbon, MN and both outfits arrive in 20 minutes and begin working on the fire too.
Then the owner of the elevator mentions to the Winthrop Fire Chief that he has a load of cash in the office safe and he'll give $1000.00 to anyone who'll retrieve that safe. Word passes around amongst the crews and the crowd that has gathered to watch the action but no one steps forward. By this time the elevator section has collapsed in a shower of sparks, burning cribbing and old corrugated sheet tin. but there still may be a chance to save the scale house, office and the store sections. The crews keep the elevator section contained, the Chicago & Northwestern has been notified that their tracks have warped where they pass by the chutes (or where they used to be, by this time) but the tired crews have still got their hands full trying to save the attached structures.
Suddenly someone notices a siren in the distance! It takes a few seconds to spot it but a mile out everyone sees a single flashing red light above a couple of dim headlights coming out of the South. One of the firemen yells, "IT'S THE BERNADOTTE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT. SOMEBODY MUST HAVE GIVEN THE A CALL!"
As the crowd watches, an old '50 Chevy fire engine with a couple of chemical tanks on the back and bunch of big Swedes hanging on roars through town and flies past the onlookers and comes to rest in the middle of the burning hardware section of the store. The boys on the rig jump off, grab their axes and hoses and fight the fire from the center of the store. With the other crews turning their hoses in the BVFD's direction to help all they can the fire in the side buildings it brought under control in 20 minutes, the Swedes recover the safe from the office and the owner, true to his word presents the crew with a check for $1000.00.
By this time the Minneapolis TV stations have had their "Eyes in the Sky" filming and catch the daring crew's work on camera. A reporter approaches the Bernadotte crew and asks their Chief, Ole Svenson, "Chief Svenson, what are you folks going to do with that $1000.00 reward you earned tonight?"
"Vell," says the Chief, "Da first t'ing ve do is get da brakes fixed on dat darned truck!"
