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Okay, I have been had. And I must admit when I am wrong. On Sunday, after STATter911.com was the first to bring you the story of the Minnesota firefighters in dresses fighting a vehicle fire, someone posted a comment that the firefighters were actually a pair of fellow fire service bloggers from Roanoke apparently out on a road trip (we will keep their real names out of it, now that we know it isn’t true). I didn’t believe it for a second. We know for a fact that one of those guys is a petite and from what I saw in the video neither one was a petite.

But I thought I was proven wrong when the picture below was sent anonymously to me. It looked legit and it clearly showed Fireboy from Roanoke, AKA the Fire Critic (again, no real names), backing up the guy with the pipe. In a rash move, I posted the picture on Facebook. For that, I sincerely apologize, because it turns out this was a doctored photo. Who knew? It looked real to me.

It took the wonderful Jeanne Moos from CNN to set me straight. She uncovered the real story and discovered that there were more than just two firefighters in drag. Please watch her story above and an in-person interview with the two firefighters below.

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UPDATE: I held off as long as I could expecting that one of our readers would say this, but alas, they haven’t. My initial thought on seeing the video was that a great injustice has been done in this country. I came out squarely against it when it happened in my back yard because I thought it meant nothing to the citizens and was bad branding, but in this case from Minnesota I would have to reconsider my position. So all I can say at this point is how sad it is that the acronym FEMS is already being used by a department.

I might as well close up shop after this one. I am not sure we will ever top this video. It comes from Central Minnesota and happened on Saturday morning as firefighters were gathered for the Padua Parade. The firefighters sprang into action when the engine of a truck caught fire. No PPE for this crew, just the dresses the two men were wearing. Yes, I said dresses. You got a problem with that?