This week on the perfect scam.

When we were headed to the hospital in Pittsburgh, our ambulance, which was very old,

it's not like the one you see today, it's an old band style.

We blew the engine and dark thick smoke is filling the ambulance.

The driver, my friend pops out.

He opens the back doors.

We're on a hill in Pittsburgh overlooking a steel mill.

We drape a sheet so nobody can see and out came that baby.

Welcome back to the perfect scam. I'm your host Bob Sullivan.

Volunteer firefighters embody a spirit of selflessness that's really inspiring.

Yes, they are willing to run into a burning building to save their neighbors,

but they do a lot more than that.

They freely give away hundreds of hours of their time.

They undergo extensive training. Most of them serve as emergency

medical volunteers too. And they usually save local governments millions of

dollars. With the only pay, the squeeze of a hand after some injured or

sick or vulnerable person has been carried to safety, or in some rare cases the

utter magic of helping a woman give birth to a healthy baby under very trying circumstances.

More on that in a moment.

That's why when you hear today's story about a scam that, quite literally, stole money from volunteer

firefighters who were in the process of buying new ambulances to help save their neighbors?

Well, I'm sure it'll make your blood boil.

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