Here's something to think about the next time you're having a bad day.



This was an article in the CALIFORNIA EXAMINER, March 20, 1998:

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 a face mask. 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 out like Flipper in the Pacific, the next he was doing a rapid breaststroke in a fire bucket 300 feet in the air. Apparently, he extinguished exactly 5'10" of the fire.


Some days it just doesn't pay to get out of bed.