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Caption This for 07/12/13

Posted July 11, 2013 4:45 PM by Kaplin
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07/11/2013 4:58 PM

Who's the U-Boat Commander?
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07/11/2013 5:24 PM

"You're asking how? He was texting his teenage daughter to be careful driving home after school."

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07/11/2013 6:11 PM

Here we see the new rapid fill, front end "nostril" method of refilling a fire trucks tanks.

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07/11/2013 6:36 PM

No NO NO!

That's not how we draw water out of the lake, Jones.
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07/11/2013 7:01 PM

But I really DID seen them fill those airplane fire engines this way!!
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07/11/2013 7:03 PM

SLURRPPP!!!!!
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07/11/2013 8:32 PM

But according the Navigation software there should be a bridge here!

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07/11/2013 8:40 PM

E1's first Underwater Rescue Training Mission a Success.
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07/11/2013 9:08 PM

Oops, left the handbrake off.

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07/11/2013 9:11 PM

"Quick thinking by fire crew member puts out cab fire by driving into lake, second crew member disciplined for smoking during work hours."

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07/11/2013 9:44 PM

I don't care if you are in a hurry, we got our own problems over here.....

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07/11/2013 10:43 PM

She was hot and tired after a hot day at the fires .

you cant blame her for taking a dip on the way home

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07/11/2013 11:03 PM

Apple Maps strike again, other first responders weren't able to find much less help these firefighters until they switched back to Google Maps.

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07/11/2013 11:21 PM

''No, Schmedley, that is NOT how we refill the radiator...''

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07/11/2013 11:29 PM

Although Ed worked as a marine fire and rescue boat pilot for 30 years his first day of cross training as a land based fire and rescue truck driver was not so..... well you get the idea His work didn't float so to speak.

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07/11/2013 11:34 PM

Arrr capin' You ain't taken your pills again an now yeas be seein' em mermaids whens' ye be driven at work?

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07/11/2013 11:41 PM

No officer I wasn't texting. I was thinking about how many bricks a bow can bend before it explodes and I drove right off the road while trying to do the calculations.

Seriously officer I can give you a link you can check out yourself later if you really don't believe that it's a real honest engineering problem!

(That's how you can drive a fire and rescue truck into a pond and not get a ticket for it!)
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07/12/2013 12:10 AM

Why yes, as a matter of fact the driver's name is Teddy Kennedy. How did you know that?

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07/20/2013 8:57 AM

"When I returned, Mary Jo and the firetruck were gone."
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07/12/2013 12:35 AM

Sam test his new invention, an underwaterfire Truck

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07/12/2013 12:37 AM

Prototype of futuristic fire vehicle undergoing trials of direct replentishment.Look! design enginers in background witnessing trails.
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07/12/2013 2:27 AM

The 'Swift Water Rescue Team' are a little too exuberant.
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07/12/2013 2:48 AM

no captin', we were bypassin' traffic when someone switched on the pond.

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07/12/2013 3:37 AM

Autonomous Fire Vehicle responding to house boat fire.

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07/12/2013 3:50 AM

"I can see you!", gurgled Rory the Red Fire Engine, as he played Hide and Seek with Thomas the Tank!

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07/12/2013 7:15 AM

Bubba misunderstood when asked to drive the new "snorkel" truck

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07/12/2013 2:44 PM

Thank god it wasn't my brother driving that thing. I'm still suffering the embarassment of his carport fiasco.

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07/12/2013 7:17 AM

oooohhhhh...... Deliver to Atlantic city not Atlantis city.............my bad.

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07/12/2013 7:44 AM

"You can lead a horse to water; you cannot make it drink."

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07/12/2013 7:58 AM

The pumper truck tank needed to be refilled.....

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07/12/2013 8:39 AM

and half an hour later...
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07/12/2013 8:48 AM

Turn right NOW!! Recalculating, Recalculating, Recalculating.

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07/12/2013 10:31 AM

"The largest of the silverbacks remains aloof and keeps his distance; he never takes his eyes off of me as he makes his way to the watering hole. The male silverback can be very dangerous. Stay low. No pointing or waving. That frightens them. If he does charge, stand your ground! Never, ever run from a silverback. Oh, and don't laugh or scratch ones self."
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07/12/2013 1:39 PM

The influences of mixing music with work...The driver was listening to "Smoke on the water"

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07/12/2013 2:23 PM

At least the truck is not on fire!

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07/12/2013 3:12 PM

Truck #7 fails its annual hydro testing.
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07/12/2013 3:30 PM

but it's got floatation tires...........

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07/12/2013 3:31 PM

It would have worked is my name was Bond,James Bond..........

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07/12/2013 5:27 PM

No, I said the first thing we do is get water to the truck, not get the truck to water. -- JHF

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You can lead a horse fire truck to water but....

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07/12/2013 8:34 PM

Damn it, I told you he wasn't to drive till he took stick shift training!!!

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07/12/2013 8:45 PM

Farewell, replaced by a newer model. No one wants me now. Goodbye.

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07/17/2013 3:18 AM

Your fired..

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07/17/2013 7:53 AM

Fire Commissioner: Yeah, yeah...I got it; where there's smoke, there's fire.

Take the damned CD player out of the cabin!!!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUwEIt9ez7M

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07/20/2013 9:00 AM

Lyn was driving his firetruck "In Search Of Intelligent Life, Somewhere; Anywhere."
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