Lookin to be ONE HELL of a fire season........

My old partner and I were working on the asphalt plant one Saturday on top of the Bag House, think giant vacuum cleaner with 350 8"x 16' long filter bags, dust collector and also 70% of the combustion air for the aggregate burner. Nobody else on the property. "Jack, I smell something funny." We look around and 1/2 mile away a column of smoke is growing the other side of the vineyards in a big grove of Eucalyptus trees. County FD only 1 mile away no worries. "There they go, we can go back to work." he says. Or so we thought, 10 minutes later somebody is yelling "HEY! YOU UP THERE!" look over the side and the captain of the fire crew and his pickup are parked 40' below us. They wanted us to take our water truck over near the fire and transfer the water into their rig. Had to go see if the driver had left it loaded Friday to begin with, I knew where he hid his key.
Do my walk around, build up air and wander over there. Upon arrival the engineer looks over my truck, digs through his fittings and finds he has no way to connect to our truck. Only hose the truck had to offer was a 20' 1" hose we used for watering the trees :lol:. "You know how to use this?" he says pointing at the side spray nozzle. We make some elevation adjustments on the nozzle, "Get your junk out of the way so I can move". I extinguished about half of it and about when I ran out of water reinforcements arrived. Water truck driver not happy with me Monday morning when he finds his truck empty :rofl:.