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WORK TRUCK WHOOPS: Do you smell smoke?

Jason Cannon (HWT)

Oct 18, 2013

This one is almost too good to be true.

Apparently, in Russia, the smell of a raging inferno is so common that it’s possible you won’t realize your truck is on fire.

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This guy hauls several cubic yards of a forrest fire around town before finally realizing something is amiss.

His solution to the dilemma is somewhat a surprise, but equally comical.

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