Hundreds of firefighters from across California poured into Santa Cruz this week to help put out the Lockheed Fire. And what did they get for it? If you trust everything you read on the Internet, one fire truck got a parking ticket. The source of the story was a Facebook photo of a fire truck in Santa Cruz with a dreaded pink envelope tucked beneath its windshield wiper.
Hundreds of firefighters from across California poured into Santa Cruz this week to help put out the Lockheed Fire. And what did they get for it? If you trust everything you read on the Internet, one fire truck got a parking ticket. The source of the story was a Facebook photo of a fire truck in Santa Cruz with a dreaded pink envelope tucked beneath its windshield wiper.
It was, in fact, the envelope used to hand out parking tickets, but there is a back story to it. It turns out that the envelope was left by a woman whose home was saved by the firefighters. When she saw the fire truck, she wanted to thank the firemen personally, and decided to leave them a note—but since she didn’t have anything to write on, she asked a parking enforcement officer for some paper. That’s how she got the envelope.
Rather than containing a fine, it had a message scrawled on it: “Thank you firefighters for saving my house.” It’s the kind of pink envelope that the firefighters were happy to get.
