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Speaker 1: Hey friends, Welcome back to Kids Short Stories. Today stories

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Speaker 1: brought to us by one of our friends, Rihan. Hey, Rihan,

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Speaker 1: he sent us an awesome idea for a story, and

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Speaker 1: Send us your idea for a story and maybe we'll

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Speaker 1: turn it into an awesome adventure. Are you ready for

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Speaker 1: this one? Me too? Let's go all right, Rihon, It's

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Speaker 1: time to go home. Rihan was on the volunteer firefighter

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Speaker 1: team and had spent all day training with all these

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Speaker 1: other firefighters. Rihon was the bravest volunteer fireman on the team,

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Speaker 1: and they would always give him some of the most

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Speaker 1: dangerous jobs because they knew that Rihon could do it.

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Speaker 1: He would sometimes climb trees to help animals down, or

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Speaker 1: crawl under really tight places to rescue things. Or he

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Speaker 1: was really strong and so he would carry some of

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Speaker 1: the hoses to spray out the fires. Did you know

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Speaker 1: those water hoses are really heavy. Yeah, Well Rihon was

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Speaker 1: really strong and could do all that work. So all

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Speaker 1: the firemen were so happy to have Rion on their team. Well,

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Speaker 1: today's work was all done, and it was time for

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Speaker 1: him to go back home. At home, he had to

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Speaker 1: do his chores and do a little bit of homework

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Speaker 1: and then get ready for bed. Well, that is not

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Speaker 1: how the rest of the day went. As he got

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Speaker 1: home and started to do all the things that he

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Speaker 1: needed to do, he got a buzz on his fireman beeper.

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Speaker 1: M He checked the message. What what does that mean?

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Speaker 1: Rihon had never seen this message before. It's said, urgent

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Speaker 1: request for Rion. I don't even I don't even know

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Speaker 1: like what the mission is, but it sounds really important.

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Speaker 1: But it's starting to get dark. Mm hmm, all right,

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Speaker 1: let's check with hey, mom and dad, is this okay?

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Speaker 1: So Rihon had to ask his parents to see if

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Speaker 1: this mission it was okay because it was getting pretty late,

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Speaker 1: and they drove Rihan back to the fire station. At

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Speaker 1: the fire station, all the firemen were waiting for Rion

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Speaker 1: to get there. As he arrived, they all raced over

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Speaker 1: to him and said, Rihon, Rion, this is this is

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Speaker 1: really serious. We're so glad that you came back. You see,

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Speaker 1: after you left, something terrible happened. The field out back

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Speaker 1: with all of the city's crops, like the corn and

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Speaker 1: all the things that we're growing for food. It caught

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Speaker 1: on fire. That's terrible. Rion said, yes, it is, because

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Speaker 1: if all the food burns, then we might not have

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Speaker 1: any food this winter. What are we going to do? Rihon?

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Speaker 1: Rihon had to think because he had just gone through

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Speaker 1: training about how to put out fire that's in corn

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Speaker 1: fields and and different crops. He said, all right, we're

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Speaker 1: first gonna need to make a line in the corn

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Speaker 1: and cut it down so that we can stop the

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Speaker 1: fire before it spreads. Okay, so grab some tractors and

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Speaker 1: start cutting off the fire before it starts to spread. Go.

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Speaker 1: Rihon instructed all the firemen how to do the plan.

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Speaker 1: You see, the fire right now is small, but it

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Speaker 1: was starting to grow. Did you know that wind can

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Speaker 1: make a fire spread really quickly, and so something that

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Speaker 1: starts so small is just like a little spark or

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Speaker 1: a little flame can quickly grow into something really big. Right, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: So that's why we have to be super careful and

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Speaker 1: let grown ups do all the fire stuff. But Rihon

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Speaker 1: was specially trained and on the fireman squad. It was

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Speaker 1: very smart. So he designed this whole plan of how

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Speaker 1: to contain the fire on the crops to save all

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Speaker 1: of the city's food. As they started working the fields

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Speaker 1: to make sure that the fire wouldn't spread, Rihon ran

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Speaker 1: back to the fire truck to drive it over to

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Speaker 1: bring the water to the field. The next step after

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Speaker 1: we contain the fire, we need to put out the

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Speaker 1: flames by spraying water. All right, YouTube fireman grab the

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Speaker 1: hose and YouTube turn it on and start spraying. Wow.

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Speaker 1: Rihon was a great leader. He put together this amazing

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Speaker 1: plan to put the fire out. Do you guys ever

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Speaker 1: think of how to solve a problem. Yeah, Solving a

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Speaker 1: problem means that you use your brain to think through

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Speaker 1: all the different steps that might need to happen, and

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Speaker 1: they all need to happen at the right time. If

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Speaker 1: you do them out of order, it won't work. But

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Speaker 1: Rion had thought through everything of how to put out

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Speaker 1: this fire, and that was why he was on this

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Speaker 1: fireman squad because they knew they could trust him. And

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Speaker 1: so while Rion was managing all this different work, he

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Speaker 1: had to run into the fire truck to call some

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Speaker 1: other backup fire departments. As the fire department started to arrive,

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Speaker 1: all the sirens could be heard. The whole town knew

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Speaker 1: what was happening. They were very worried about their food supply.

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Speaker 1: They were starting to get all the fire contained so

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Speaker 1: that it wasn't spreading anymore. But some of the flames

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Speaker 1: and some of the sparks started to jump across the

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Speaker 1: street into another field of food. Oh no, this, this

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Speaker 1: wasn't supposed to happen. How did that happen? Rion said?

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Speaker 1: As he looked up all the weather maps, he saw

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Speaker 1: that the winds had changed. The winds were blowing one way,

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Speaker 1: but now they switch and they're blowing a different direction.

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Speaker 1: That means he's got to change the plan. What do

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Speaker 1: we do? What does Rihon do? Yeah, he's got to

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Speaker 1: stick to the plan. He's got to bring all that

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Speaker 1: All right, everyone hurry get back to work. We need

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Speaker 1: to move to the other field and save all that food.

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Speaker 1: Rion was so good at making sure everyone was following

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Speaker 1: the right directions. Do you know that it's important to

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Speaker 1: follow directions? Yeah? The right directions or you know, the

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Speaker 1: right steps to solve a problem is really important, and

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Speaker 1: Rihan was doing it perfectly. As the fires changed, he

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Speaker 1: had to adapt and make his plan even better. So

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Speaker 1: as all the workers and all the firemen grabbed the

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Speaker 1: of the of the corn. They had to surround the

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Speaker 1: corn to make sure that it wouldn't all catch on fire. Well,

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Speaker 1: you see, one part that I didn't tell you is

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Speaker 1: that Rihan had a very special friend. This special friend

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Speaker 1: was only friends with Rihan and nobody else could talk

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Speaker 1: to him. Do you know who he was? Oh, my gosh,

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Speaker 1: he was a water breathing dragon. Yeah, we've all heard

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Speaker 1: of fire breathing dragons, right, Yeah, Well, Rihon had a

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Speaker 1: friend who was a dragon who could spray water out

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Speaker 1: of his mouth, and Rion saved him for the biggest,

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Speaker 1: most important emergencies, And I think this was the case.

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Speaker 1: The fire was getting so big and so hot, he

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Speaker 1: knew that he needed to call for backup, and so

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Speaker 1: he got on a special walkie talkie with the direct

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Speaker 1: line to this dragon and said, tort are you there, Torty,

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Speaker 1: come in? Yes, Who's is this real? Why lo Torty,

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Speaker 1: there's something terrible. There's a huge fire in the corn

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Speaker 1: fields and in the crops and all the food. I

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Speaker 1: need you to get here as soon as you can

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Speaker 1: and dump a huge amount of water on this fire.

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Speaker 1: I bet that's going to take care of it absolute

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Speaker 1: lyer and Towrty, the water breathing dragon took off, and wow,

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Speaker 1: there he is. Rion could see him flying in the sky.

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Speaker 1: And as he poured all this water on the fire,

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Speaker 1: instantly the fire was gone. Rion had saved the town

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Speaker 1: all the food that might have been burned. He did

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Speaker 1: all the right things and made all the right decisions.

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Speaker 1: The whole fireman squad praised Rihon and made him captain

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Speaker 1: of the entire squad. What an amazing day. Rion saved

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Speaker 1: the day. The end