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2	[[caption-width-right:681:"It's our job to save the day, siren's say help on the way!" ]]
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4	''Firehouse Tales'' is an American animated children's television series created by Sidney J. Bailey and produced by Creator/WarnerBrosAnimation as the only original series for Creator/CartoonNetwork's now-defunct Tickle-U preschool block. It ran from August 22, 2005, to January 6, 2006. It was originally pitched in 2000 but wasn't picked up until 2004 by Warner Bros.
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6	The series is about a group of anthropomorphic fire engines who attend Green Meadows Fire School so they can learn to be firefighters.
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9	!!''Firehouse Tales'' provides examples of the following tropes:
10	* ColorCodedCharacters: Each of the characters are colored differently, which is most notable with the fire trucks; Red is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin, Petrol is orange with a green checker pattern, Crabby is yellow, DaChief is blue, and Wiser is dark red.
11	* FirehouseDalmatian: The Fire School has a Dalmatian who is named Squirt.
12	* MagneticPlotDevice: The team has sirens that go off when they receive a distress signal.
13	* MeaningfulName:
14	** Red is well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin red.]]
15	** Crabby is very grumpy - or crabby, if you will - and complains a lot about going outside.
16	** Petrol is named after a type of gasoline that fire trucks take.
17	** Chief is the chief, or head teacher of the junior firetrucks,
18	* MediumBlending and TwoDVisualsThreeDEffects: The humans are animated in regular 2D animation, while the firetrucks and other vehicles are animated using CGI.
19	* NiceMeanAndInBetween: Petrol is sweet but shy, Crabby is moody and sullen, and Red stays in-between because he's well-behaved but more assertive than Petrol.
20	* PowerTrio: Red, Petrol, and Crabby respectively.
21	* SentientVehicle: A majority of the cast are talking vehicles.

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