News Around, A BAD DAY!
Here's something to think about the, next time you're sure the world is
conspiring against you, or you're just having a bad day:
Fire authorities in California found a human corpse in a burned out sect
ion
of forest while assessing fire damage after a recent forest fire. The
deceased male was outfitted in a full wet suit, complete with dive tank,
flippers and a mask. Confused, they conducted an autopsy, which revealed the
man had died not from burning or smoke inhalation, but rather from massive
internal injuries. StiIl puzzled, investigators set out to figure out how a
fully equipped diver ended up dead in the middle of a forest fire. Dental
records provided a positive identification of the man, which led to the
discovery that he had been on a diving trip off the coast, several miles away
from the fire.
It was later revealed that firefighters, hoping to control the blaze as
quickly as possible, had called in a small fleet of helicopters with large
drop buckets. The buckets were dropped into the ocean for rapid filling, then
flown over the forest fire and emptied.
This guy never had a chance. One minute, he was making like flipper in
the
Pacific, and the next he was treading water 1000 feet in the air.
He was responsible for extinguishing, roughly five feet-ten inches of th
e
fire.
Some days you should just stay in bed :')
source: Discovery website, 18Jan99
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