Through the meeting or campfire, different people run through with some container (cups, buckets, cans, etc).

Eventually the MC stops one of them and asks what's going on to which the reply is "your tent (car, house whatever)

is on fire". Now when we do it we add a great deal to it depending on the location setting etc. The water carriers ham

it up by making it look like a real effort or something very serious. The MC makes some comment to the audience

each time one runs through including things like requesting a cup of coffee the next time someone runs through.

Sometimes we have people "offstage" cheering the runner through. And sometimes we change the "punch line".

Like MC: where's the fire?, runner: there's no fire, so & so is thirsty, at which time someone walks across with a cup

and wiping their mouth saying ahhhhhhh. I think you can get the idea from there.

-- Thanks to Hank Heine: