Sept. 9, 2025

40,000 pounds of rib-eye steak burns as Vegan Firefighter helps

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Ethel Caterham became the world's oldest living person at 116 and her life advice; a promising treatment for head and neck cancers in cats that may benefit humans; the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge in Australia showcasing solar-powered cars; a couple in Mexico setting records for the largest stir fry and frying pan; and the humorous incident of a vegan firefighter’s first call involving a tractor trailer fire carrying 40,000 pounds of ribeye steak.

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Calaroga Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with five

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good news stories. Ethel Catterham is now the world's oldest

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living person. She just celebrated her one hundred and sixteenth birthday.

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Her sister Gladys died in two thousand and two at

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age one hundred and four. Family's got good genes. Her

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sacred to long life. Say yes to every opportunity because

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you never know what it will lead to. Have a

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positive mental attitude and have everything in moderation. That is

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great advice. Scientists are working on a treatment for cats

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that may help humans. They were working on head and

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neck cancers for cats and found that more than a

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third of the cats who received the treatment had their

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disease controlled with minimal side effects. They believe the drug

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will be effective for humans who have head and neck

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squamous cell carcinoma, apparently oral cancer a pet cat. They're

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difficult to treat. Most animals die with it in two

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to three months of diagnosis. Professor Johnson from UC San

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Francisco says there is a remarkable similarity between feline and

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human versions of the cancer. One cat was diagnosed with

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HNSCC vets gave the cat six to eight weeks to

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live when er, Tina said, it was a gut punch.

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We wanted more time with him. When I found out

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about this clinical trial, I knew I wanted him to

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be part of it. Jack the cat went to weekly

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treatments for a month. He lived more than eight months.

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Tina said it was meaningful to us because he was

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here in our lives during that time. My son finished

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college and my daughter finished her master's program. Jack got

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to spend one more Christmas with us, and he loved

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our Christmas tree. He was worth every bit the effort.

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In Australia, it was the bridgestone World Solar Challenge. It's

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kind of like the twenty four Hours of La Man,

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but very different. Motorsport experts competed to have solar powered

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cars raced two thousand miles across the outback. Apparently, the

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current design flavor is fins. One organizer said fins are

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the flavor of the month, or certainly the flavor of

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this event. Were told most of the vehicles had one

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or even two fins. The University of Michigan team uses

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their fin like a combination of the rudder and a

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sail on a boat. It generates ford thrust while also

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stabilizing it in the crosswinds. The winners Dutch team Brunel Soler.

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They arrived in Adelaide thirty four hours after leaving doorwin

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Their car, called the new To thirteen, had not one

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but two fins. Very interesting. Meanwhile, in Mexico, couple records

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first record largest stir fry, second record, largest frying pan,

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thirteen two hundred and fifteen tacos. Let's dive in on this.

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It was the Ladiscata twenty twenty five festival in Guadalupe.

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One hundred students used a twenty three foot diameter frying

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pan to prepare some sturfry, which included sausage, beef, pork, bacon, tomatoes, peppers, onions,

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and beer. The sturfry cooked for three hours and forty

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minutes over a wood fire. It was fifty three hundred

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and thirty one pounds of food, which were then turned

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tow to tacos. Three records set most tacos served in

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one hour, largest stir fry, largest frying pan, and now

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I'm hungry, all right, it's trope of the show. Time.

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Why reolate for work this time? Well, you see there

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were forty thousand pounds of ribbi steaks on the road.

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I mean funny, not funny, but funny. A Missouri fire

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department called in the fire department. One of the firefighters

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a vegan. It was the vegan firefighters first day on

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the job. As I always tell you the Devil's and

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the details on this show. The Doolittle Rural Fire Production

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District set on social media. CRUs responded to a reported

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detractor trailer fire on eastbound one seventy four. It happened

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to be probationary firefighter Jenna's first fire. She got to

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fight the fire alongside her father, Glenn. Jenna was working

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the hose. She's a vegan, so naturally her very first

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fire included a tractor trailer carrying forty thousand pounds of

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ribbi steak. No injuries, but we're told the stakes were

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a total loss. And those are your five good news

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