By Diane Rothschild

Many thanks to Ron Jeffers of the New Jersey Metro Fire Photographers for the humorous photos and captions below.

“Hey, I found a Code 3 rescue truck model in here!”

“Is that fan kosher?”

“OK, chief, my unattended cooking stinks!”

“In between stick-ups, I buff fires!”

Diane Rothschild, a 25-year veteran of PennWell Corp., is executive editor of Fire Engineering and conference director of FDIC. She has a B.A. in English communications. She has been a yenta (look it up) for most of her life. If you have a story for the Yenta, e-maildianer@pennwell.com.