Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Apologizes After Baseball Field Was Swamped with Water
MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MARYLAND, JUL 18 – A firefighter flooded the baseball field after a ball damaged his pickup truck, forcing the Silver Spring-Takoma Thunderbolts to cancel their game, officials said.
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Firefighter Unleashes Hose On High School Baseball Field After A Ball Hit His Truck
No one likes it when their vehicle gets hit by a wayward baseball, but most of us don't have access to a firehouse; otherwise, we might do the same thing a fire captain in Maryland did after his truck took a home run ball.According to the Daily Mail, a team called the Thunderbolts was taking pre-game batting practice at Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, Maryland, when one player sent a ball over the left-field fence, and over some n…
Maryland firefighter floods baseball field after truck damaged by fly ball
You can play a lot of sports in the rain and the mud, but baseball is not one of them. On Thursday night, a game for the Cal Ripken League in Montgomery County, Maryland had to be canceled, because of a feud between a firefighter and the Takoma Thunderbolts. A baseball coach told News4 that, at batting practice, a long fly ball soared over a fence and hit a pickup truck in the parking lot at the nearby Silver Spring Fire Station. That’s when a c…
Montgomery County Fire and Rescue apologizes after baseball field was swamped with water
The Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service issued an apology Friday after an incident on Thursday night resulted in the Silver Spring-Takoma Thunderbolts baseball team having to cancel their game. In a social media post Friday, the team, which is part of the collegiate Cal Ripken League, showed a video of water being sprayed by a fire hose onto the field at Montgomery Blair High School on University Boulevard. The post said the water was bein…
Peeved firefighter floods baseball field with fire hose after ball hits his truck, ending game
A Maryland firefighter unleashed "gallons of water" onto the field at Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, Maryland, forcing the Silver Spring-Takoma Thunderbolts to cancel their baseball game Thursday night, team officials said.
Maryland Firefighters Force Baseball Team To Cancel Game By Flooding Field In Retaliation For Dented Truck
Firefighter at water hydrant next to truck You’re always taking a bit of a risk when you park a vehicle in the vicinity of a baseball field. One firefighter at a department in Maryland learned that the hard way when his truck was struck by a player warming up for a game being held next to the station, but they may have gone a bit too far in their quest for revenge after drowning the field with water. I feel like I’m far from the only person who …
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