Dowel Jones

And you were right; fights between inmates, or even crews sometimes, can erupt over nothing and go from 0-60 in a flash. I side with Camden in re Bode. If you're going to be a firefighter, get your head out of your ass and pay attention to your boss. Ignoring his orders, whatever the immediate gratification, is the quickest way to get fired. Sorry Sharon, you don't put a firefighter trainee in charge of the Command Center. It takes a fair amount of training and experience to do that job, and you put a lot of people at risk doing that. I really hope they settle their personal issues (and that means everyone) by the time the show returns. It's getting more and more absurd. Sure, let's talk about it while I'm driving the fire engine Code 3 to a wildland fire. Let's take a break from this fire that's threatening the park and go inside the tent to talk about it. Get to work, people! By the way, Johnny Cash started a fire is the Sespe Condor Refuge outside of Santa Barbara back in 1968, I think. His wheel bearing overheated and away it went. Steep, rugged country there. Anway, the fire killed something like 80 California Condors, but when he appeared in court, he reportedly snarled at the judge and said, "I don't care about your damn birds!" Way to impress them, Johnny.

There's too many jokes in that line... (I know it's a misprint).

But, but, but they have all that fancy equipment on board! They should be busy curing cancer and whatnot. :)

He was being assaulted by a guy who meant to do him serious bodily harm. At any moment it could have turned deadly.

Trent gets attacked while on a field assignment. Say, Trent, did you notice the big, bulky, object on your side that all police officers carry? Called a firearm? Or did you just want to duke it out to show who's the baddest in the woods. Zeke has all winter to figure out how to dodge the criminal charge against him.

I did enjoy the weekly dose of humor around the Certs package. They really did discontinue it in 2018 so Mouch, you got nothin' coming.

The Chief probably works a similar schedule, and has a relief also, but oftentimes they are allowed to go home at night, provided they live within a reasonable distance of the fire station. Obviously he would take the BC vehicle home with him. What I don't quite understand, and I'm sure it's just for plot development, is that Mouch and Hermann can take the Lieutenant's exam and be immediately available for a Captain position. And suppose Pascal is happy to be a BC? They're not going to move him out just for the intrepid Crew 51. As soon as Cruz poured out the substance on his hand, I immediately thought of the anthrax poisoning some years back. How did gangbanger manage to sneak into a house full of firefighters, pick the lock on Cruz's locker, and stash that bullet? Something else to make you go, "Hmmm". One Engine with 4 on board. One Truck with 4 on board. One Squad with 4 on board. 2 medics. That's 14 people parking around the fire station, which means 28 cars at shift change, since one shift can't leave before the other gets there. Where are they parking? Too bad the writers didn't go off the rails a bit with Carver's fence job. Instead of shovels, I was hoping they would have had an auger in the back of his truck..

What??? An entire episode without a foot chase? I see now why they don't ever show NYPD doing any tactical stuff. That bunch couldn't hit the side of a barn from inside the barn. And the FBI SUV is going to be in the body shop for at least a month after that shootout. Let's hope Isobel gives them some square, boxy sedan in a hideous color.

I think that's exactly what Bode was doing, even though she specifically said earlier that she had a boyfriend. "She sings. She fights fire. She has blond hair, and tattoos. I'm in love." Who has money on a potential confrontation with the boyfriend in a future episode?

That was an interesting twist to the episode, but an unusual way to bring it out to the fore. You would think more attention would have been given to reports of rifle shots being fired at people in the forest, as I would assume he had done this beyond the two known murder victims and the hikers. If the cop drops in from time to time, I sure hope he can afford to drive long distances. An affable character, though. Not the usual wound up ex-cop attitude. How far from the camp did the 4th hiker go to take a pee? He fell down, but they couldn't hear him scream? TMI, maybe, but if I gotta go at nighttime, I find the closest tree outside the camp that I can hide behind. Fine wine and coffee cups. Mmmmm. Jeez, Reenie, just open the trailer door without knocking; at night to boot. You're lucky Colter didn't clobber you.

Another question I have is, a plane goes down with 172 people on board and there is not one media person or television crew there throughout the ordeal?

Some years ago, there was a ballot proposition in California to split the state into two. The dividing line would mostly run the county borders in the center of the state and on out through the Bay and the Golden Gate. I looked at it and said "You idiots; you put San Francisco in Southern California. This is doomed!"

I kind of wondered how they fit 172 people in a 50' long plane. And why is the front exit 20' off the ground when the back exit is ground level? And to hell with sleeping on the floor of the bar. I'm paying someone to take me to the next town over. Edgewater isn't that isolated. Eve, take off the damn fire shirt. Nobody, and I mean nobody, wears those things anywhere but on an incident. They're rough, scratchy, and smelly. Tee shirts are fine. Gabby can't stay in that trailer on her days off. Listening to all the daily noise of the fire station with the alternate employees, alarms going off at night, etc. I don't think so. I'd be gone. But that means that B shift is playing tonsil hockey when their captain's back is turned, too. Levin Rambin does have a voice, I agree. I wonder if the producers sought her out right off the bat, so she could follow in Lainey Wilson's footsteps over at Yellowstone. I seem to remember that she did some singing too, before people actually started noticing her.

Maybe it was the bus station CC camera, and Zeke had hacked into the feed. Still illegal.

She might have signed an AMA (Against Medical Advice) off camera, which would release the ambulance company of liability if she refused to go to the hospital. People do that quite often, only to be transported Code 3 with CPR later on. Why are people so gullible on TV? I get that it's a plot necessity, but when Matty stuck her foot in the ex-super's doorway, she was trespassing, and any injury she received would get no sympathy from the police or the courts. Yet he backed down.