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A probationary firefighter at a rural fire department in Missouri had a unique experience when responding to her first fire on Monday.
The Doolittle Rural Fire Protection District serves the small town of Doolittle. Among their team, they have a new recruit named Jenna Ulrich, who is notably the only vegan firefighter in the squad. Interestingly, her father also serves as a firefighter.
Ulrich was working on Monday morning when the department received a call reporting a tractor-trailer on fire on Interstate 174 eastbound.
The catch? The truck was carrying 40,000 pounds of ribeye steaks.
“Nothing says ‘welcome to the fire service’ like sending the probie to put out 40,000 pounds of flaming ribeye!” the district joked on Facebook.
A hefty cargo weighing 40,000 pounds consisting of ribeye steaks went up in flames on a Monday after the truck transporting this meat caught fire on a Missouri interstate.
Despite a job well done on the firefighters’ behalf, the department said the steaks were “a total loss.”
This is not the first time the small department has been called to extinguish flaming trailers carrying food.
On June 8, the firefighters from the Doolittle Rural Fire Protection District were called to tackle a blaze. The incident involved a tractor-trailer completely filled with onions, which was found entirely on fire.
In June, a tractor-trailer “fully-loaded” with onions caught on fire, resulting in another total loss.
