Indonesia Uses Trained Elephants To Fight Fires

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This is awesome!

SIAK, Indonesia (AP) — Forest fires difficult to control? Call in the pachyderm patrol.

Officials in Indonesia are using trained elephants outfitted with water pumps and hoses to help control fires that have claimed vast amounts of forest while sending thick haze into neighboring countries.

Full article and photos: http://news.yahoo.com/indonesia-uses-trained-elephants-control-forest-fires-061136454.html

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All I could think about was this, when I read that.

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Edited November 11, 2015 by AFS1970

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That'll work out just fine until one of the pachyderms gets caught in a fire and ends up being a roast, then you'll have the environmentalists screaming bloody murder.