Firediving in Cali

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Firediving in Cali


Fire Authorities in California found a corpse in a burnt out section
of forest whilst assessing the damage done by a forest fire. The 
deceased male was dressed in a full wetsuit, complete with a dive 
tank, flippers and 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 kilometers 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 he was doing a breaststroke in a fire bucket 300m 
in the air. Apparently, he extinguished exactly 1.78m (5'10") of 
the fire.

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


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