Want free coffee or bottled water when work gets hot? Need that quick refreshment when you feel like you’re on fire? Then I suggest you head over the Mobile Canteen Unit.

Seen here at a Petworh house fire, the cafe on wheels was quick to put out firemen’s thirst while keeping them on the job.

I’m not sure that DC needs a whole “Canteen Unit” at every accident scene, but I can see where it would make sense at multi-alarm fires. Better to have the firefighters hydrated and on the scene than gone to make a ice run to 7-11.

Now I just wonder, does it serve donuts too?

This post appeared in its original form at DC Metblogs

Wayan Vota

Married, mortgaged, and soon to be a father, Wayan Vota is in the fast lane to mid-life respectability – until the day his brood finds his intimate journal of global traveling and curses him with the ever-eternal reply “I’m gonna be just like you, Dad!”