I'm so proud of Maryland's firefighters, risking their lives to protect others, but we need to protect our protectors with the best equipment training and resources
In West Virginia, we're all family. We know how firefighters and policemen honor their own and we feel our miners deserve to be honored in a similar way.
That's what I love about acting. There's never a set role. You can be a firefighter, you can be a baseball player, you can be whatever you want in the acting world. I think I've found my calling.
Writing is a passion I have never understood, yet a storyteller is all I have ever wanted to be.
I am so happy to be on a show with writing I wanted to participate in.
As the member of a firefighter family myself, supporting the widowed families of rescue workers is an important, personal cause of mine.
Women love firefighters so much because it’s like a knight in shining armor kind of thing.
Michael Mann's always been one of my heroes.
The hero is commonly the simplest and obscurest of men.
Those two songs condense the two albums. They also show what the audiences wanted. I was desperate to keep the band together and find something that the public would like.
I decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as a writer after those eight months as a fireman.
Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose.
Once you have a firefighter in your family, your family and the families from his crew become one big extended family.
In addition to my cousin, there were 30 or 40 guys I grew up with who became firefighters as well. So, I've been around firefighters all my life.
Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.
I believe that interest in heroes is universal and eternal.
And I love doing my own projects; that's what I've always wanted to do.
I was never able to write seriously about heroes because I was very aware that I was not one and that in my background there was not this heroic thing.
I talked to General Downer about some of the funding about the National Guard and some of the civil defense workers, the firefighters, the police officers, and the way that FEMA is making them spend that money. We have got a problem there.
We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that
