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The Fire-ring Squad
もえろゼニガメだん！ほのおのように!! Burn, Zenigame Squad! Like a Fire!
Broadcast dates
Japan	May 11, 2000
USA	April 21, 2001
Theme songs
Opening	Pokémon Johto
Japanese theme songs
Opening	OK!
Ending	ポケモンはらはらリレー
Credits
Animation	Team Ota
Screenplay	藤田伸三 Shinzō Fujita
Storyboard	井上修 Osamu Inoue
Assistant director	井上修 Osamu Inoue
Animation director	佐藤まさふみ Masafumi Satō

The Fire-ring Squad (Japanese: もえろゼニガメだん！ほのおのように!! Burn, Zenigame Squad! Like a Fire!) is episode 147 of the Pokémon anime. It was first broadcast in Japan on May 11, 2000 and in the United States on April 21, 2001.

Contents 1 Synopsis 2 Major events 2.1 Debuts 3 Characters 4 Humans 4.1 Pokémon 4.2 Pokémon seen at the Fire and Rescue Grand Prix 5 Trivia 5.1 Errors 5.2 Dub edits 6 In other languages

Synopsis

Major events

• Ash sends his Tauros back to Professor Oak and agrees to let Heracross stay at the lab.
• Team Wartortle and the Squirtle Squad make a reappearance.
• Ash's Squirtle rejoins the Squirtle Squad.

Debuts

Characters

Humans

• Ash Ketchum
• Misty
• Brock
• Jessie
• James
• Officer Jenny
• Captain Aiden
• Tracey Sketchit (flashback)

Pokémon

Who’s That Pokémon?: Houndour

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Togepi (Misty's)
• Pidgeotto (Ash's; flashback)
• Bulbasaur (Ash's)
• Squirtle (Ash's; leaves)
• Heracross (Ash's; at Professor Oak's lab)
• Chikorita (Ash's)
• Cyndaquil (Ash's)
• Staryu (Misty's)
• Psyduck (Misty's)
• Onix (Brock's; flashback)
• Zubat (Brock's; flashback)
• Wartortle (Captain Aiden's, multiple)

Pokémon seen at the Fire and Rescue Grand Prix

• Blastoise
• Golduck
• Poliwag
• Poliwhirl
• Poliwrath
• Muk
• Vaporeon
• Marill
• Quagsire

Trivia

• This episode's dub title is a reference to a Firing Squad.

Errors

Dub edits

In other languages

• French: Une escouade qui a le feu sacré
• Italian: Pompieri provetti
• Latin American Spanish: ¡El escuadrón de bomberos!
• Spanish: La brigada de incendios