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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Angcuru" data-source="post: 1275131" data-attributes="member: 10948">Speaking of a gas explosion, does anyone remember a few years back when there was that huge fire at an Exxon gasoline storage facility?  I remember my dad was chief of the local volunteer fire department (that would be Iselin) at the time, and he spend three days over there helping keep the thing under control.  Ironic that there was not a single house fire in our district while he was chief, but a gas tank blew up and made national headlines OUT of our district, and he had to go anyway.  Still has a plaque on his office wall that he got for helping out.I feel reminded of the one time the alarm DID go off for a house fire during his time as chief.  Everyone got all excited and the whole department was mobilized, including a police helicopter just for good measure.  So they go over to where the fire was, and see no smoke WHATSOEVER.  They bust open the door and rush in, searching the whole house, while my dad is standing outside, practically vibrating in anticipation.  A few minutes later, the whole crew comesout following the 1st Lieutenant, who is holding a citronella candle in one hand.  He and my dad stand there looking at it.  "It appears we have a working candle fire in progress."  Says the lieutenant into the radio, and everyone is struck dumb with shock.  He turns to my dad, upends the candle into a snowdrift, putting it out.  "Fire extinguished."  he says into the radio.  Then they all drive back to the station, and everyone who was there never lets my dad forget that he was the only Fire Chief in the HISTORY of our town to have had a working 'Candle Fire' during his time as chief.  Just a funny anecdote.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /></blockquote>

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