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One dark night in the small town of Jessup, Pennsylvania, 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 firefighters appeared on the scene, the president of the
sausage company rushed to the fire chief and said, "All of our secret sausage
recipes are in the vault in the center of the plant. They have to be saved, so I
will donate $50,000 to the fire company 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 Dunmore Volunteer Fire Department,
composed mainly of retired 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 old timers jumped off and
began to fight the fire as if they were fighting to save their own lives. Within a short
time, the Dunmore 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 raising the reward to $200,000, and walked over to personally
thank each of the brave elderly firefighters.

A TV news crew rushed in, capturing the event on film. The on camera reporter asked
the Italian fire chief, "What are you going to do with all that money?"

"Well-a," said Chief Pasquale De Luccinellavanti, the 75 year-old fire chief, "Fusta, we
gonna fix-a da brakes on dat f__king fire truck."

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