![]() And, for those people who don't know any firemen, go adopt one or better yet, go volunteer. I've been waiting for a show like this to come along because I practically grew up in a firehouse, and I know so did a million other kids in America. There's a million stories in the Naked City, and "Rescue Me" could tell them all. I love that the moral center keeps shifting underneath their feet, just as in real life. Leary's character shows the dark side, and his 'secret evil plan' instead of whitewashing every guy as a hero, as competent or even, sober. ![]() But he's also drifting between sorrow and anger over a separation from his wife and three kids, and the haunting memories of his fallen. ![]() " If you don't' come to our fundraiser, we ain't coming to your fire" )- you see real men, some of them boneheads, some of them rocket scientists, but always for real. Whether pulling survivors from a fiery high-rise or the twisted steel of a subway collision, Tommy Gavin (Denis Leary) takes pride in leading the heroic but overwhelmed firefighters of the NYFD. So, if you ever have an opportunity to go to a 'wetdown' or a fundraiser (See Bayhead NJ crabfest in Aug. It's authentic, it's gritty, not pretty, but then, you don't know firemen - they're running into burning buildings when everybody else is running out, and are a breed unto themselves, an essence that Leary and Co. I heard about this show and since I come from NY/NJ and from an Irish catholic family of firemen, of course, I'm watching this.
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