Posted on 06/22/2007 6:30:48 PM PDT by RDTF
EDINBURG, Texas (AP) -- Firefighters who spent half an hour fighting a blaze in which 2,000 pounds of marijuana went up in smoke breathed so much of it that they would have failed a drug test, a fire chief said.
It took more than 35 firefighters, 1,000 gallons of water and five gallons of chemical suppressant to extinguish the warehouse blaze on Wednesday, Fire Chief Shawn Snider said.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were investigating the origin of the drugs.
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Snider said Thursday the firefighters were exposed to so much marijuana smoke that they would not be able to pass a drug test, despite wearing air packs to prevent them from inhaling toxic or hazardous fumes.
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In other news, fast food sales increased 800% this afternoon...
Did they have the munchies?
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Good thing it wasn’t crack. They’d be driving around at 120MPH putting out people’s campfires and charcoal grills all night.
“Wa-howwwwwwwwwwwwwww ,,, man!”
wish I’d been a fly on the wall back at the station LOL
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All kidding aside....FireFighters are heroes...
WHUHUHUHUHUHUHUH!!!!!!
Well, if you believe all the anti-dope freaks on this site, all these guys will now descend in a death spiral into hell, start using harder drugs, cause wrecks and kill innocents, abuse their children, lose all ambition, etc. etc., etc.
nothing to joke about, nothing funny
my opinion
lmao.
“It took more than 35 firefighters, 1,000 gallons of water and five gallons of chemical suppressant to extinguish the warehouse blaze on Wednesday, Fire Chief Shawn Snider said.”
And 48 dozen donuts, 52 bags of chips, as well as 32 Super Supreme Deep Dish Pizzas, as well as an extended stay at the neighborhood Waffle House.
Reminds me of the stories of when my small town bar burned... the firefighters went “clink, clink, clink” as they walked for some reason....
1 guy with an inch and a half hose can use 115 gallons of water a minute. 1,000 gallons of water would last this one guy less than ten minutes.
What were the other 34 guys doing?
I think perhaps the 1,000 gallons of water was an understatement.
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