When you're fighting fires and saving lives every second counts. And while driving an emergency vehicle means you're exempt from the laws of traffic, there are no exemptions from the laws of physics as this firetruck driver learns when the rig starts to drift and a slight overcorrection has some awesome looking and, thankfully, non-fatal consequences. The video comes from a dash-mounted cam and is thus not quite HD quality but you still get the idea. [Google Video]

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