Verbal Fridge Dialogue is a code used by the Volunteers of the V.F.D. to send messages to other Volunteers in the event of a fire. In The Slippery Slope, Klaus Baudelaire discovers a scrap of fire in the ruins of the V.F.D Headquarters, located in the Valley of Four Drafts in the Mortmain Mountains. The information found on this scrap is as follows. NOTE: Some words were burned away in the fire; brackets placed around information represent speculations made by Violet, Klaus, and Quigley.