Border and Language Problems Story
On the border of Belgium, NEtherlands, and Germany, their emergency management systems and fire response don't communicate (feelings about WWII, wanting to be individual in attracting residents). On one of the mountains within Netherlands they don't have water pressure and since Netherlands no longer uses fire trucks due to everywhere having fire hydrants, they have a problem. They decided to fake a fire in a structure and see what would happen and they sent a fire chief from the Hague (capital far away who don't typically understand the problems near the border). When the alarm sounded, water fire truck from Belgium arrived, water fire truck from Germany arrived and NEtherlands people arrived. Immediately they all started trying to communicate in flemish (i think?), german, and Dutch. However, we all know that fire fighters communicate well for emergency and they immediately began speaking the local dialect, they put the fire out, and the only person that couldn't communicate was the Hague commander in charge! Afterwards they all went to lunch and were immediately at separate tables speaking their individual languages. They learned that in emergencys everyone will get along for a cause, but have a commander that speaks all languages!
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