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Man Uses Snowblower To Put Out House Fire

Posted by samzenpus on from the escanaba-in-da-firelight dept.

The only thing cooler than a man putting out a house fire with a snowblower is listening to a man with a yooper accent tell the story. Steve Liubakka of Diorite, Michigan managed to contain his neighbors house fire with his quick thinking and his snowblower. "The fire chief told us, well if it wasn't for the snow blower, you wouldn't have a house. The snow blower isn't a $550,000 fire truck, but it did the job," Liubakka says.

9 comments

  1. Yooper by afterthought · · Score: 1

    Sounds sooper yooper.

    1. Re:Yooper by Kirks11 · · Score: 1

      YOOPER FTW

  2. Looooollll by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Chewbacca on a snowblower Superlawl.

  3. Blowing out a candle? by M8e · · Score: 1

    So you can blow out a fire of this size? I mean without explosives.

    1. Re:Blowing out a candle? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      WTFV (watch the fucking video). He didn't blow it out, he used the snow blower to blow snow (not air!) into the house where the fire was.

  4. misquote by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    He said "ain't no $550,000 firetruck," not "isn't a."

  5. Quite risky by TheMidget · · Score: 1

    ... it could just as well have fanned the flames...

  6. In Soviet Russia.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    snow blows you!