Columbo was happily talking to his friend Mike one day when a large bang was heard on the street in normally quiet Lodoreton.
Mike and Columbo ran to the front door to find that, almost unbelievably, a helicopter had crashed into their neighbour Malcolm's roof!
Columbo, remembering his training as a police attack sniffer search and rescue dog darted towards Malcolms' front door.
Unfortunately however he was unable to open it, not due to the large fire that was rampaging behind the closed door, but because Columbo is a dog thus lacks opposable thumbs so could not operate the simple handle.
2 fire enginges, a paramedic, a super observant community support officer and an ice cream van quickly arrived on the scene and screeched to a halt.
Columbo sat across the street and watched as the fire spread through the now decimated house and wept as the screams of Malcolm and his children got fainter yet more piercing with every piecing minute that they remained in there home-turned-incinerator.
Mike suggested that they head to 'spoons for a zeeboo steak. Columbo doesn't really like Zeeboo, but he fancied a pint of Pedigree chum, so they meandered down the road together.
The End.
nite Mike xx