A human named Blaze Fischer had just turned on the stove to make spaghetti for dinner for his firefighters when suddenly the alarm sounded and over the PA system he heard "Station 439 unknown industrial fire at 8574 Quincy Caller smalls burning wood or paper but can't find flames and we now have a smoke detector triggered.'
Blaze and the rest of his firefighters bolted to their assigned rescue vehicles. Blaze stopped at the com station and said "10-4 all vehicles in route ETA five minutes."
Five minutes later the first vehicle to arrive was the ambulance which was driven by a female anthropoid gray raccoon named Sandy Wilde. She grabbed the mick of the scanner next to her and said "Sir I am unsure if you want to send anyone back but it looks like a fire in a small five gallon bucket."
"Copy we'll keep everyone rolling just to be on the safe side." Blaze said as he pulled up "It'll just be a waiting game for your team as well as our tech crew." as soon as the crew in the snorkel showed up Blaze looked at the female anthropoid red fox, named Luna Spencer, who was sitting in the rear driver's side passenger seat and said "You four go inside and look around for any other fire and report back."
One of Blaze's partners who was a human named Shawn had already grabbed a garden style hose and put the fire out then ran over to Blaze and said "Sir the bucket is out. It looks like an ash bucket for any smokers that work here. It appears as if people were also using it for trash."
Blaze shook his head and said "Really with this big dumpster a few hundred feet away?"
"Yeah people are lazy now days." Shawn replied as Luna and the rest of the team from the snorkel truck came out of the building. Her male human partner
Hank Miko walked over to blaze and said "All rooms checked it looks like it was just the bucket.'
"Okay I will notify the supervisor." Blaze said and started to walk to the other side of the building. He then got on his radio and said "Everyone except pump truck can return to base. I am going to go give the supervisor the all clear really quick."
Just as he let go of the talk button a female anthropoid cheetah in the company uniform came around the corner and said "Hey my name is Nicole Forester and I am the supervisor on this shift. I am just wondering if it's clear."
"I was just coming to let you know the all clear. You definitely need to have a chat with the crews though the fire was from the smoker's ash bucket because people also use it for paper."
"okay thanks I will have a meeting during lunch." Nicole replied as the two of them walked away from each other
As Blaze shut his door another of his partners who is another human male named Chad Coleman turned the fire engine around and said "Well that was a stupid call."
"I know but people are apparently think it's supposed to be trash for their lunch." Blaze replied as he pulled his cell phone out of the phone locker and sent his wife who was a female human, Chelsea, who was the driver of the ladder truck and asked her to turn the stove back on.
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Bucket Fire
Short StoryI got this idea while working at a company with a small 5 gallon bucket for smokers.