Firehouse Tales is an animated television series, produced by Warner Bros. Animation

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, which premiered on Cartoon Network

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's Tickle-U preschool television program

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ming block in the United States on March 4, 2005. It is about three anthropomorphic fire trucks

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Firehouse Tales is also shown on Cartoonito

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 in the U.K.

Characters

• Red - A red firetruck and the main character in the show who never gives up. He loves nature and the outdoors but most off all he loves making new friends. Sometimes he is the leader of the firetruck team. Voiced by James Arnold Taylor
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• Crabby - A yellow firetruck who sometimes complains about his job and who likes the "great indoors" better than the outdoors. also he sounds similar to Numbuh 2 from Codename: Kids Next Door
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  . Voiced by Ben Diskin
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• Petrol - An orange firetruck who is sometimes afraid but manages to find the courage inside himself. He has a Scottish accent similar to Wakko from Animaniacs
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  . Voiced by Jess Harnell
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• Chief - The blue firetruck who is the leader of the junior firetrucks (Red, Crabby, and Petrol). He tells them exactly what to do at any given time. He sometimes put Red in charge of the team. Voiced by Maurice LaMarche
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• Mayor - The mayor of green meadows and usually the only human to talk in the show. She usually complains about something that one of the firetrucks or a normal vehicle did. Voiced by Tress MacNeille
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• Stinky - The green garbage truck of Green Meadows. He is used to his own stench but sometimes takes a bath, resulting in pollution that has to be cleaned up by the firetrucks. Voiced by Dan Castellaneta
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• Snooty-Tootie - A limo who carries the mayor around Green Meadows. He once taught the junior firetrucks manners. Voiced by Billy West
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• Spinner - A helicopter
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   who often doesn't take his job seriously. Voiced by Tom Kenny
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• Scoop - a plane who carries water which she can use to douse fires. Voiced by Grey DeLisle
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Additional Voices

• Richard Ian Cox
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• David Kaye
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• Kathleen Barr
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• Michael Dobson
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• Trevor Devall
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• Matt Hill
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• Scott McNeil
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• Tabitha St. Germain
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• Ken Barrie
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• David Holt
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History

Firehouse Tales - FHT was originally produced by Firehouse Productions, LLC as a 22 minute(2x 11) pilot, created and developed by animation producer Sid Bailey and animation director Jim L Clark. The program was sold to Warner Brothers in 2004. Following the sale to Warner Brothers, the program was redeveloped as a CG program composited over 2D backgrounds - 26x half hours were subsequently produced by Warner Brothers and aired on Cartoon Network worldwide.

The original pilot episode, which never aired publicly, was created as practical miniature sets with computer generated(CG) facial expressions added in post production. The original Firehouse Tales cast were: "Pete", "Lakie", "Tip, "Wiser" "Chief McSpeed" and the fire station Dalmatian "Squirt".

Firehouse Tales ancillary products were produced by Bandai(toys), Simon & Schuster(Books) and Scholastic(books).

External links

• Firehouse Tales at Tickle-U.com