Message:

Dear Tulefog team, dear Mr. Furtado,

I just read in your newsletter that I won your contest!

This is really surprising for me; I just participated in this contest for fun and would never have expected to win anything. And this is actually my problem: As much as I remember, the prize was a 24h-day with the SFFD - Unfortunately I don't live in the U.S. and I'm afraid I don't think I'll be able to afford going to the US only for this occasion.

Please do not misunderstand this, I've been a volunteer firefighter for 15 years now here in Austria, and I would love to spend a day with US professionals to see how they work - hey, that's why I as watching your great series in the first place!

Therefore, I'd suggest you give my prize to the person who was graded to get the second price, as I see no other solution. I hope this is good solution; at least it should make the person happy who gets my price - I hope he or she is able to go to S.F.!

Keep up the good work and continue producing a great show!

Yours sincerely,

Stefan Stoeger

A NOTE: Stefan was still under the impression that we were giving the ride-along as a prize and as you all know we no longer have a budget for that. We hope to ship his prize to him directly.

We will announce all the winners tomorrow night.

Be safe.

Sincerley,

DRF