Ok. Finally watched it for a grand total of 10 mins. Then a buddy asked me what took me so long. 
Trash
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Weird, all those years running crew we tried to keep male and female inmate crews away from each other for obvious reasons. I haven’t watched the show so I’m guessing orange is still an inmate crew.
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This is how bad it gets… The female in orange (in the picture above) is the daughter of the crew captain who showed up at the scene of a fire (its a small town and everybody knows everybody) and insisted she was going to help out. An inmate gave her the orange helmet and gear (they had a spare set laying around?) The crew captain got exasperated and relented because his daughter was determined not to leave and then the inmates showed her what to do. This show is more soap opera than anything else. Reminds me a lot of Reno 911.
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It’s junk for sure, but I do enjoy watching it with a drink in hand while having some laughs.
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I muscled it thru the first two episodes (hit a rough patch when the group of inmates told the Captain they were “giving up their seats” in the CDF Crew bus so a CDC guard could use it to drive some school kids to “safety” then he gets hit by lightning - did laugh a bit there…) but finally quit in the third when the inmate-lead-character has a nightmare and can’t sleep, so he gets up and takes a walk - and then he runs across his Fire Captain (also just wandering around the prison lockup) for a middle of the night heart-to-heart discussion. There is so much wrong with this show its hard to know where to start.
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I’m really enjoying it. I would say most parts are pretty accurate. Isn’t there a lot of con crews that do gardening at rec centers. The most unrealistic part is the chief wearing web gear.
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I think CBS brought the stoke with this show; the use of civilians, saw skills on patio covers, lightning strikes, and nepotism. The only thing missing is red team hats. I can’t wait until the MKU episode where everyone in camp gets diarrhea. However, I still think the show would be better if it was centered around a rainbow crew. I think I see a spin off coming!
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Well everyone thanks for the insight LOL…I think this ones going to be a pass for me. They should of let
Quentin Tarantino produce it, then it might at least be worth worth watching. May not be good but interesting.
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@Reddgroom at least Reno 911 was trying to be a comedy/parody… I am not sure what these people are trying to do lol.
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I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a worse alternate universe used to justify what is written into the script. Even my old Three Stooges firefighting episodes are more realistic. I am probably going to have to quit watching for one of two reasons, 1) the bruising on my forehead from slapping it, 
or 2) my wife will ban me from watching because she can’t stomach too many more episodes with the constant comments streaming out of my mouth throughout an episode. It is so hard to watch without adding the various “are you kidding me?” and related comments 
. One episode of this series undoes about 5 episodes of good the show “Emergency!” brought the fire service. This is just stupid bad.
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I have seen chiefs in web gear…
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What is crazy is its produced by Jerry Bruckheimer…aka Top Gun…wait the pilots probably feel the same way…
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Watched about 4 minutes of this week’s episode. That’s as long as I could last before nausea set in. I could not even laugh it off and make fun of it. This is the biggest pile of stinking excrement I have ever seen.
But not surprising from CBS.
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Oh my Goodness , it’s a TV show!
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I could agree with you except for one point, they are representing themselves as Cal Fire. If they changed the script to a one off named fire agency it wouldn’t matter. Any real agency would be aghast if this show was titled as their own agency, when it’s so fake. So, yeah it’s a TV show who represents themselves as a real named fire department agency. Any Cal Fire employee or retiree would be disrespected and down right pissed, and have a right to be.
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Tacoma FD?
Chicago Fire?
The difference is that Deputy District Chief Steve Chikerotis who runs the district that the show is set in is a consultant to the show and no one from CAL FIRE is a consultant and the writers are completely freelancing it, Tacoma FD is just a spin-off of Super Trooper and is just a comedy.
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Somebody has to green screen fire country to point out everything wrong with it like Jason Patton did with station 19 and 911 lone star.
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