On the morning of April 8, 2006, a pale green, twenty-eight-foot-long, 1976 FireMaster fire truckEngine 633drove away from a port in Sihanoukville, Cambodia, after traveling some 8,500 miles from Colorados Rocky Mountains. It had just cleared customs and was en route to a small fire station six kilometers away.Just two years before that, Captain Sok, Sihanoukvilles fire chief, told author Douglas Mendel that his town was in need of a new fire truck. Mendel made it happen. In Cambod...