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It was Sept. 27th, just a normal day in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Mabel McCullough was celebrating her 95th birthday in the company of the First United Methodist Church women's group. With a carrot cake carrying 95 candles right before her, McCullough went to blown them out and instead of getting her wish, she instead received a big cloud of smoke hovering over her and her friends. That is unless her wish was for 24 firefighters to show up at her party. 

"There wasn't an inch to spare. By the time we had them all lit, it looked like a torch," said Eddi Carlin, a guest of the birthday party. "We had just sat down to eat when we saw them in the doorway."

The smoke from the blown-out candles set off the smoke alarm and resulted in the fathering of five engines and two ladder companies. After realizing that a fire was non-existent, the firefighters left, but not without taking a picture with the birthday girl first. 

"In my 23 years on the job, I've seen a lot of things set off a fire alarm, but I don't think I've ever heard of one going off because of a birthday cake," said Fire Chief Lonnie Lamb.