Jimbo Named Sole Hope for Fire Prevention
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hile on a recent trip to a national park, Jimbo was designated as this country�s only tool for forest fire prevention. He was selected by a bear that was apparently "wearing trousers and a ranger hat.""I was told, �only you can prevent forest fires,�" said Jimbo, "so prevent I shall." Jimbo is aware that the prevention of all accidental forest fires is a monumental task, but know that recruiting others to help him would be useless, as the bear said that he alone would be able to accomplish the task.
Jimbo also knows that his work cannot prevent fires from starting after his eventual death, so he will name a successor. "It is imperative that I conceive a son immediately," he said. "It may take many years to teach him the complicated ways of forest fire prevention."
Jimbo has not officially started preventing fires, but he has begun to think of ways to go about it. "One thing I know I can do," he said, "is to dispose of unwanted liquor properly instead of dumping it all over the woods and setting it on fire, which is what I usually do."