Chicago joke After being a firefighter paramedic for 20 years... this show is a joke. It compares to rescue me, which I actually liked better. Its all about drama. And unless you have actually worked in a station for 24 hour shift this is just another soap opera... I watched the first season and laughed at the show. Ive been to a few Chicago Fire houses and those that would talk about it say its an embarrassment to the department as well as the fire service! Most of the comments I doubt are from firemen.. but buffs

Another fantastic series. But then what woman doesn't want to see our hero fire fighters do what they do best!! The fire scenes are to great you can almost smell the smoke. No offense to Grey's Anatomy, bit this follows too much of their personal lives. This is way better because it shows more of what they are feeling after doing what they do. Grey's on the other hand is more sex, with a little medical stuff thrown in, more Soap Operaish. Not a prude, but I hate having to worry what my 12 year old thinks of it when he comes in the room and I don't change channels fast enough. Chicago Fire, he watches it with me (after I've seen it first, I'm not looking forward to explaining that yet! Lol. Defiantly in my top 5. Please don't cancel anytime soon, that's such a bummer, like loosing a family!!

Sweet mix of intensity from the most memorable emergency calls that could be faced in an entire career to the interpersonal dramas that develop from living together on 24 hour tours of duty with other firefighters, paramedics, and rescue technicians. Leslie Shay is my favorite character and I love seeing her close friendship with Kelly Severide. But I don't want to see it ruined by so many 'fan' request to turn her into someone she is not just so they can become more than just friends. By the way, I'm a recently retired firefighter and while there is obviously the Hollywood element in any TV show, all those types of emergency calls are real and firehouse interpersonal drama is real too.

where's the female firefighters? As a member of the fire service, particularly a volunteer department that doesn't always "play nice" or by the book/rules, I see this show for what it is, a television show meant to entertain. Granted yea it doesn't portray the fire service to a perfect T. But who wants to watch us sitting around watching TV or washing the apparatus, testing saws, doing a maintence night? No one. So of course a producer is going to spice things up, maybe twist things a little, but it's a fictional TV show, not a documentary. But I do have one request/comment: As a female firefighter, why can't the show include a female firefighter? Sure you have Shae and Dawson as medics, but there's so many females a part of the fire service both career and volly. overall, great SHOW.

Awesome! Great show loved it! Finally something other than all this reality crap! For the negative comments....come on it's a TV show not a reality show where someone films the actual lives of fire fighter/paramedics. Having worked EMS 20 plus years it would be a pretty boring show waiting on the as we call them "good calls". Perhaps alittle investigative work is needed so things are as they really would be like transporting a child from a MVA without a cervical collar and spine board....just saying. Great show though!

Hope it never ends I haven't missed a single episode!!! It comes on and I am super glued to the couch and I'm there until the episode is over!! It's sad to see that Shay has to "died" but you had to throw some emotional events in there as well. Awesome awesome Awesome! !!