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<p>Two Arkansas firefighters came up with an ingenious strategy to put out a house fire in a flooded Houston neighborhood—a trick from duck hunting.</p>
<p>Arkadelphia firefighters Jason Hunt and Beau Bishop went to Houston last week to help their colleagues responding to the devastation left by Tropical Storm Harvey.</p>
<p>They were rescuing people with a boat when they saw a pillar of black smoke. &#8220;We dropped these the two people off from the boat and headed that way. Just followed the smoke basically,&#8221; Bishop told <a href="http://www.arkansasmatters.com/news/local-news/arkadelphia-firefighters-use-duck-hunting-trick-to-help-houston-firefighters/803967771" target="_blank">ArkansasMatters.com</a>.</p>
<p>They found a house on fire with Army reservists and a Houston firefighter standing nearby in waist-deep flood water.</p>
<p>Hunt and Bishop immediately went into action, working with the others on the fire.</p>
<p>&#8220;You would think that we had kind of been with that crew forever because it just went pretty seamless,&#8221; Bishop said.</p>
<p>Hunt took the fire hose intake and dived into the water to connect it to a fire hydrant. But the pressure was not enough.</p>
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<p>Then an idea occurred to Hunt.</p>
<p>&#8220;Just an old duck hunter trick,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We&#8217;ll pin our boats to a tree in the woods and [we would] blow the ice out using our boat motors so I thought it would be worth a try.&#8221;</p>
<p>In winter, as ducks wouldn&#8217;t stop at frozen ponds, duck hunters would use the jet engines on their boats to launch water over the surface of the pond to break up the ice.</p>
<p>Since the boat had a jet engine, using a water current to propel the boat, they just directed the nozzle at the house and let the engine do the dousing.</p>
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<p>They took a video of the job and posted it on Facebook, where it garnered almost 2 million views.</p>
<p>Still, they said it was the rescues that stuck most in their minds.</p>
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