The Bainbridge Island Fire Department recently played host 19,704 boxes of Girl Scout cookies.

The delicious samplings of Americana were stored at Station 23 temporarily while they were organized and handed out to individual Scouts for delivery, said Assistant Chief Luke Carpenter.

The cookies were only there for a few hours, he quickly explained (undoubtedly fearing some nefarious cookie theft plot), before being handed out to the Scouts.

According to the Girl Scouts, each box contains at least 15 cookies (Girl Scout Cookies are sold by weight, not by size or number. The number and size of cookies vary by variety and by baker), which means the Phelps Road horde consisted of approximately 295,560 individual cookies.