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chapter 3: Fireman Sam Finds Out

Back in Pontypandy, Steele got a message on his fax machine. He gasped when he read the letter on it. "What?! Norman Price and Derek have ran away from home?! Oh, no!"

He sounded the fire alarm, and immediately, Sam, Elvis and Penny reported to Steele, sliding down the fire pole. "Norman Price and Derek Price have ran away from home!" Steele said.

Sam, Elvis and Penny were gobsmacked.

"THeY couldn't have!" Penny said.

But they HAD ran away.

That was what the firefighters found out when they got to Dilys' shop, and got the whole story from a very upset Dilys. "I saw the note this morning, Fireman Sam!" Dilys cried, for she was sobbing, and drying her eyes with tissues. "Oh, my poor little Norman! And Derek, too!" Dilys sobbed, "Out there, all alone, no food, nowhere nice to sleep..." She blew her nose on another tissue and threw it onto a pile of soggy tissues on the floor next to the counter. "Oh, if only I hadn't been so horrid to him!" She cried even louder, and ran up to her room, crying all the way.

Fireman Sam read the note that Dilys had shown him. He gasped. "I can't believe it. "Norman Price ran away after all! AND he took Derek with him!" He turned to Elvis and Penny. "This is very serious." Fireman Sam stated. "We must go find them. I'll call Tom Thomas so he can use his helicopter to search for them." he dialled up Tom Thomas at the Mountain Rescue Centre. "Norman Price and his cousin Derek have ran away, Tom. Can you use your helicopter to find them?"

"Roger that, Sam!" Tom Thomas' voice rang from the phone.

"Right." Sam said. "Elvis, you go with me to find Norman and Derek in Jupiter. Penny, call Trevor, and tell him to bring Charlie, Bronwyn, Sarah, James, and Mandy to help too."

"Got it." Penny said. "I'll call Helen Flood too."

"I'll go too." Dilys said, coming down from upstairs with a bag packed with essentials.

"Uhh, I don't think that's a good idea..." Fireman Sam began uneasily.

"I don't care." Dilys said firmly. "My Norman's out there, and so is Derek, and I'm coming with you to find them."

Fireman Sam knew this was extremely serious, but there was no other choice - he needed all-hands-on-deck to find Norman & Derek.

"Come on, then!" Fireman Sam said seriously, as he headed out the shop, followed by Elvis and Penny, as they headed back to the fire station.

Dilys stayed back at the shop to wait for Trevor to pick her up. She waved goodbye to Sam.

"We'd better hurry." Fireman Sam muttered to himself. "No telling what mischief Norman Price and Derek will be getting up to!"

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