A fire breaks out at a large chemical plant.....

...and is blazing violently out of control. Engine companies from all over the city keep rolling in to fight the fire, but it keeps growing worse and worse. Storage tanks are exploding and warehouses full of toxic chemicals are burning so hot the firemen keep getting pushed further and further back. The fire hasn't yet reached the corporate office building in the center of the facility, and the chemical company's owner is desperate to keep the office building and all of the important secret chemical formulas in it from being destroyed. He gets on the Fire Department's radio frequency and announces he will give $250,000 to the engine company that can get the fire under control before it reaches the offices. The firemen redouble their efforts, and new trucks keep rolling in, but the fire gets hotter and more out of control as time passes. Soon the owner gets on the radio and ups the reward to $500,000. The firemen are pulling out all stops in battling the flames, but to know avail. At last, in desperation, the owner raises the reward to $1,000,000! Soon after his announcement, an old fire engine from a nearby rural volunteer fire department comes flying through the gates at full speed loaded with fat old firefighters. Without slowing, the engine races directly into the hellish fire straight towards the office. The old men bail out of the truck and begin frantically fighting the fire with a gusto the young city firefighters have never seen before. In a spectacular display, the old volunteers battle back the fire and soon have it under control. Later, as the oldsters are walking out from the battle while the younger firemen mop up, the chemical company owner comes over to their chief. "Well, I've never seen anything like that in my life!" He says. "What are you boys gonna do with that $1,000,000 you just earned?" "Well," said the exhausted old chief, "the first thing we're going to do is get the goddamn brakes fixed on that old truck!"