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On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 13:12:23 -0700, Tim Bruening
<tsbrueni@pop.dcn.davis.ca.us> wrote:

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>Rowland Croucher wrote:
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>> Diver in the Forest
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>> 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.
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>> 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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>In which newspaper can I read about this bizarre incident?