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 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
 fores 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
 facemask.

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

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