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You know the drill.

The only problem is, that in this job...

there's just no place to hide.

It's not like having a bad day selling log cabins.

You have a bad day here, somebody dies.

And that's just not f***ing good enough.

You know something?

I musta told myself a million times...

I didn't even want to be a damn fireman.

Look, I know I quit the academy before.

- And I know how you musta felt.

- Oh, you do?

You know how I felt?

I gotta do this, Stephen.

I need to know.

Yeah, I think you're going to find out, Brian.

Try not to be late tomorrow, huh?

[Starter Motor]

Give me a break, huh!

[Starter Motor]

Sh*t!

Come on, damn it!

[Horn Blast]

[Sirens]

Oh, sh*t!

- My car wouldn't start!

- What are you doin', man?

Atta boy!

Damn!

Come on, man. You can make it!

Well, Baby McCaffrey, how you doin'?

How you doin', John?

[Horn Blast]

Hey, Axe, you know this rug rat?

Know him? I practically raised him.

He never calls. He never writes.

I'm Brian.

I'm sorry.

[Horn Blast, Siren]

All right! Garment factory.

Shake and bake, boys! I think we got a barbecue.

Got yourself a hot one first time out, kid.

[Horn Blast, Siren]

Oh, yeah, this is gonna taste like sh*t.

- All right, let's go!

- Sh*t!

I hate it when we gotta f***ing go look for it.

Call in a box, Otis. We're gonna need some back-up.

Brian, inch-and-a-half.

Get the high-rise jet.

- These moments do try me.

- Be gentle now, Axe.

[Car Alarm]

Holy sh*t!

Coming through!

Heh, Probie, how about it, huh?

Yo!

- You ready?

- Yeah.

You're doin' it wrong.

Stay beside me. I mean, right beside me.

Come on, man. Kick it in.

Show time!

Got it!

- Let's take it from the side.

- No, let's hit it head-on!

It's gonna flash on us, Bull. We gotta back out!

She'll steam on us a little, but she won't flash.

Here comes your water.

Here it comes!

All right, let's go for the throat!

Hey, Nightengale! Save your f***ing air, man.

Pull down that wall!

I gotta ventilate this heat.

All right, hook us up to a standpipe!

Come on, Brian!

Sh*t!

It's in the walls!

- How about it, Probie?

- Coming!

Come on, Brian. We're going to lose this!

Sh*t!

Charge it!

- Hey, Otis is it--

- [Otis] It's jumpin' floors.

Where's the second-in companies, huh?

Sorry, man, John Wayne time. You're on your own, boss.

- No back-up.

- Sh*t!

Dig in.

- Dig in, goddamn it!

- All right, come on!

What the hell's goin' on? What was that, goddamn it?

Slow down, it's jumpin' floors to us.

Relax, put your mask on. It's gonna be the real deal.

Down!

Cover up, Lieutenant!

Jesus Christ!

I'm burning up!

Put him out!

Bull!

All right, go get it!

Hey!

Sorry, kid. I thought you were dead.

We got it. Let's go!

Oh, sh*t!

Man down!

Look out!

I'm going!

You go, we go!

Come on!

Pull!

Brian, let's go!

Hey, Stephen!

The chief thinks we got one left behind downstairs, a civilian.

Axe!

Take--

[Stephen] Down to two probies, perfect!

- Take Tim and do a search!

- Let's go, kid!

- Stay with him.

- Okay, I will.

Come on. Let's move it, Brian. Stay on this line.

Ow! You son-of-a-b*tch!

More line!

Sh*t!

Help!

Stephen! Over here!

Someone's over here!

Help!

Where's my brother?

I don't know. I ain't seen him, Bull.

Is anybody in here?

My God!

I got one!

I got one!

I got one!

Somebody, give me a hand!

[Coughing]

Is she going to be all right?

I'm afraid you're a little too late with this one.

[Laughter]

Sorry to hear about the mannequin.

I heard you two were close.

You all right?

You didn't get burned, did you?

Look, I'm a little busy right now.

You've got an awful short memory for direct orders.

- I told you to stay beside me.

- I heard somebody call.

What was that bullshit with the standpipe?

The cap was stuck!

I told you to stay right be-f***ing-side me, Brian!

Hey, look, I was doing it!

I was up there doing it!

You don't know, man. You don't know what I did!

What you did was drop the ball, Probie.

You split the team up. Get that part right...

if you wanna.

- Let me get one of those.

- Here you go.

[Grindle] I don't know, Axe. I don't know.

That Stephen, man.

What goes through that guy's head?

Never wears his mask.

Making us take it on in the first room like that.

This sh*t's happening too often, man.

- Could've flashed. Should've flashed!

- Yeah, but it didn't.

- Stevie knows.

- The guy's lucky.

[Dispatch Radio]

- Alderman.

- Inspector Rimgale.

- I... need to get in that trunk.

- Oh, excuse me.

Thanks.

Pretty fancy shoes you're wearing for a fire scene.

Guess you haven't been to many fires.

We wanted to talk to you about Alan Seagrave's death.

We still haven't gotten a fire report.

You'll get that answer as soon as I do, ma'am.

A man gets stuffed through the windshield of his own car.

Is that an accident or arson?

[Swayzak] People are asking me. I gotta tell 'em something.

We're starting to get the feeling your office is dragging out this case...

to embarrass the alderman because of his fire department cutbacks.

I have an uncomplicated job: to decide if a fire is arson.

If so, to catch the son-of-a-b*tch doing it.

If my investigative methods happen to muck up...

the campaign of certain mayor wanna-be's,

I gotta tell you,

I'm not going to lose any sleep over it.

I'm sure you're gonna have that report on my desk as soon as it's ready.

- You'll have it.

- Thank you.

That guy better not make any rights on reds in my district.

Hey, Swayzak?

You missed it.

Get over there. Keep 'em busy.

You should've been there. It was f***ing great!

We almost lost a whole goddamn company for you.

Since you shut down 33, there's no f***ing backup.

We appreciate it. I don't know about the rest,

- but you got my vote for mayor.

- If you have a problem, help us.

- Work with the task force.

- The task force?

Three guys have died because of cuts made by your f***ing task force!

Know that little glow that's starting to blink in the corner of your eye?

That's your career dissipation light. It went into overtime.

- Come on, man.

- No.

If anybody's lights are about to go out,

believe me, they're yours.

Thanks a lot, fellas.

You did a great job today, by the way.

Alderman, will this affect your task force findings?

No more today. Good-bye.

So this is that big city job you were talking about.

Yeah. Welcome home, Brian.

Where's that f***ing guy buy his shoes?

Did you check those out? They're like f***ing butter.

Yoo-hoo! Hey, G-man!

Get outta here.

[Gargling]

Do you have to do that?

Yeah. Could you believe that fire?

There we were, Adcox and me...

pulling that lady right out of the fire's f***ing throat.

We saved a life, man!

Whoo-hoo-hoo!

I love it here! Fighting 17th!

Goddamn!

Stephen's amazing.

You see how he took that fire? By the balls!

I'm gonna be that good someday.

You watch. You'll see.

You know what Stephen said to me?

When the sh*t was coming hard,

he said, "You never know...

till the moment the fire stares you down...

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