Do you need another reason to love beer?
Probably not…but we'll give you one anyway!
On Monday nighty, an off-duty firefighter was
driving down State Highway 71 in Austin, Texas when he noticed
an 18-wheeler pulled
over to the side of the road with smoke coming out of one of its
tires. The firefighter—later identified as Capt.
Craig Moreau—pulled up near it and realized that the
driver of the truck was attempting to put out a fire that
started after one of the truck's brakes locked up. But he wasn't
having much luck with the small fire
extinguisher that he had in his truck. So Moreau
asked the driver if he had anything else in the truck that he could
use to extinguish the flames. The driver's response?
"Beer!
It's all beer!"
The 18-wheeler was filled with Coors
Banquet beer. So Moreau asked the driver to start
throwing him cans of the beer and, one by one, he sprayed the fire
with the beer. And wouldn't you know? The beer successfully put out
the fire.
"I shook them up, and popped a top one at a time until the
fire was out and the brakes were cool," he said. "Thankfully they
were tallboys. I couldn't help but laugh at the irony of it all. He
was so shaken up that the humor escaped him…I have no doubt if the
beer hadn't been there, the whole trailer would have burned
up."
Fortunately, though, the beer was there,
and it saved the truck from going up in flames. Hooray for
beer!
