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Previously, on Fire Country, I had just found out that my dad was having a baby

with another woman. And a part of me always wanted to find him. He lives in

Drake County.

You know that application that you filled out to foster kids without

Yeah. You could lift me on the application, not as a co -parent, but as

girlfriend.

Give to you freedom for whatever's coming next.

It's gonna be okay now.

Mom is here.

Just finished co -trailing at Domino Ridge, clearing the scene and returning

station. Copy, 1591.

Hot spotting for four hours? Brutal.

You thought that was brutal? That section was gnarly.

You see that?

What?

Another hot spot.

Where?

Oh, yeah.

Yeah, yeah. You know, let's get that.

Is it right there? Yeah, I see that. Yeah, right there. Let's get it.

My hair. I have to look respectable for the social worker. Oh, come on.

Wait.

You're really fostering an actual kid? No.

Francine is.

I'm just going to meet the social worker and say hello.

I'm the girlfriend.

Oh, wow, you are a month away from a minivan.

So are you.

Because the second you meet your brother, you're going to leave us in the

for your blood relationship.

You're finally going to meet Malcolm?

I don't know.

Well, maybe you should reach out to him.

You can email him, call him, text him. Okay, okay, hey, look, I haven't decided

yet. I ain't just chill.

What about you, man?

I mean, the world's your oyster now that you up in parole.

Any big plans?

No, I never really thought that I'd get here, so I didn't make any plans.

Trying to figure it out.

Oh, until then.

I guess there's one thing I want to do.

Yeah? Yeah.

Yes.

I knew you was going to do that. Come on, get it, get it.

Hey, I'll shoot on the run.

What are you doing here?

I said don't come. I was clear.

There's nothing confusing about it. What do you want, Ruby?

It's mom.

No. It's not when you extorted my husband for money that we didn't even

That whole thing was his idea. Oh, that you ran with to the tune of $26 ,000 and

you didn't see me or Bodie in 10 years.

Oh, how is my sweet boy? Oh, no. What do you want?

Are you going to make me stand here and grovel or...

Will you offer me a seat in a beverage so I can tell you?

Really, Crawford?

You know your way around all these big, loud tools, but you still have not fixed

my bathroom sink.

Violet, hi.

I...

Kinda internet stalked your half -brother. What?

He's amazing.

Jake, really. Like, he played soccer in high school, and he got scholarships to

play in college, but instead... Okay, look, Violet, I wasn't even sure if I

going to call him. So, slow down. You have to call him.

He's just like you.

It's like those...

Twins separated at birth stories, and then when they meet as adults, they're

both mechanics married to women named Betty. Wait, are you telling me his

girlfriend's named Violet, too?

Amber. But Jake... No, no, this... Stop.

I don't want to know his private business.

He's a firefighter.

What? Yeah.

Your phone number.

I take a glass of wine.

It's 10 a .m. Give an old lady some Chardonnay for courage, please.

You remember when we used to go to hotels and you were never happy with the

room?

So we'd have to move a million times until you were happy?

I finally had a say with some hotel clerk.

My mom is picky, so skip the first two rooms you're going to show us and just

give us the third one, the good one.

I have to get this smoky, so skip the first two lies you're about to tell me

just get to the truth of why you're here.

Okay.

So, um, after Riley died, Vince reached out and

said that I, um, upset you.

Yeah, I think that might have had something to do with calling me a bad

on the day of my daughter's funeral.

You know I would never use those words. It was a difficult day for everyone. But

then the idea that my mere presence was somehow triggering for you, that you

needed space.

I mean, it was absurd. You needed me.

And, yeah, I needed you.

I was hurting, too, you know. I had just divorced Paul, the tinless bastard. Oh,

the third room, Mom. Get to the third room.

So, Vince.

suggested that I take a trip, go away, lay on a beach somewhere, as if I could

afford a vacation.

Okay, so he gave you some money to stay away?

Why shouldn't I let my son -in -law buy me a trip? I was crazed with grief. And

then for the next ten years, when you continued to take that money from him,

then when you wrote him a threatening letter saying you were going to tell me

and blow up his life, that was grief? It was Vince's idea. I just told you that.

Yeah, but Vince is dead, so I can't really ask him, can I? I haven't had an

time. Sharon, and I'm not perfect, but who is, are you?

Is this your version of an apology?

Because that's not how you do this. Of course, I'm sorry.

I'm sorry!

What do you want me to say? I'm sorry!

I'm sorry!

You know, the only reason I stayed away was because I thought it was what you

wanted and I was doing the loving thing. So now what? I'm the bad guy?

How does that happen?

I can't.

The third room.

What is this?

Everything that Vince gave to me, plus interest.

I have to go, I know.

Well, thanks for the vino.

Mom.

Is this check going to clear?

Yeah.

It's going to clear.

have believed it.

Come on, Ruby.

One second he's running around the yard with my garden hose pretending to be a

firefighter. The next second, he's the real deal.

Yeah, there are a lot of years in between there.

Not all good ones.

Oh, I know, honey.

That's why you're the second stop on my apology tour.

I should have been around more.

First stop was mom?

Sure was. And, um, look, uh, back then it was,

okay, it was complicated. I was an idiot and I'm sorry.

Okay. I'm really very, very sorry.

How'd she take it?

How do you think?

If she needs a target, then I can be that for her.

Oh, come on. Give me a hug.

Unless you think I'm the devil too.

So, tell me, how are you?

Can you leave this?

I'm off parole.

Of course you are.

You were always going to find your way out of that mess.

I just wish we'd all done things different when you were falling into it.

Oh, um, put your number in my phone so we can catch up.

Oh, damn it. I forgot to give this to your mom.

Your mom gave me this when she was little for luck.

Figured now she's the one who could use it.

Give it to her for me.

You can give it to yourself.

With your mom, anything from me is better coming from you.

Guys, can you not? Sorry.

I was just texting Luke. He's moving back to the States. Give me that. Yo,

it, dude.

Oh, so you're on another station's socials. Where you going to jump?

Again? It's Drake County.

Violet found out Malcolm's a firefighter there.

And you just followed him with my name, which is his name. Great.

Well, now you got to call him.

Hey, Eve. Yeah.

Where are we with Three Rock?

Uh, the prelim plans are done. I got city council to sign it, but I think we

need some startup funds.

And once we get the cash, how soon before we're up and running? Like, maybe

months. Six months? No.

Try yesterday, Eve.

We need bodies.

You know, I gotta put Bodie and Jake on Defensible Space Project today because

we... Because we need Three Rock. Right.

I'm on it, and I'm sorry to disappoint you.

All right, everyone sit down.

As you all know, I went down to Sacramento for a couple of days to do

training, and they put me in this presentation about fire season.

Well, we all know damn well there is no fire season anymore thanks to climate

change. It's all year round. It just keeps getting worse.

Last year, a little more than 8 ,000 wildfires and over a million acres

Here in NorCal, we had Zabel Ridge, and we lived it and we fought it.

We saw this.

It took land.

It took homes.

And lives.

Right now, snow caps at 30 % of normal, which means we're going to have a really

dry spring.

And if we don't get significant, and I mean significant winter storms, they're

saying it's about to look like this.

So we've got to be ready, guys.

We were this close, this close to losing our town.

But this, this will make the Zabel Ridge fire look like a baby.

We cannot wait for it. We have to act now. I'm talking resources.

I'm talking training.

I'm talking whatever you got going on, set it down.

Single focus. No distraction.

Because what's coming ain't stopping for nothing.

We're at war.

Great.

Oh, right on time. Thank you.

Our fryer's on the frit. You're wondering that's why I gave you these

instead of the onion rings. Mom.

Omar Ruby got to you?

She surprised me, too.

Been so long since I've seen her. She looked smaller.

Nothing about her is small.

I know it's different for you.

She's a much better grandmother than she was mother, but... She seems sorry.

Sorry is what you say when you're late for lunch.

Do you believe her?

I do.

This morning, it's a briefing.

Chief told us that Sacramento says the fire's coming for us hard.

Manny said that?

It's a war and the fire's winning.

Well...

We know better than anyone that it can all go away in a second.

You don't want to have regrets.

Did Omar Ruby put you up to this?

No.

I know that she did some crazy things. I know you guys have history, but maybe

she deserves another chance.

She wanted me to give you this.

Said that you gave it to her for luck once.

Now she's giving it back.

Can't believe this place is still standing.

Yeah, well, it shouldn't be.

42 issued a notice a month ago.

And it got condemned.

The one thing that the Zabel Ridge fire should have taken out.

And it didn't.

Flooded.

You don't want to choke it out, you know that, right?

Maybe I'm just working harder than you.

Yeah, never.

There's a blast here right there if you want.

Hey, you know, man, he seems shook.

You know, by Sacramento.

Yeah, it's pretty scary.

You know, puts things in perspective, you know.

Like, what really matters?

Just do it, Jake.

Do what?

Call your brother.

What, now?

Why not?

Okay.

Okay, yeah, sure, I'll call him.

Voicemail. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Hey, hi.

Hi. I just, you know, I wasn't sure if I should call.

But this is weird.

OK, let's start over.

I'm your brother. Well, half brother.

Your dad was my dad, so same dad.

I'm a firefighter, too.

You know, Station 42 and Edgewater.

I guess that runs in the blood.

Look, if there's anything you ever want to talk about, or if you want to talk

about my dad, your dad, our dad, that

was it.

So, you know what?

You can call me back whenever.

Jake Crawford.

Okay, cool.

Bye.

Thanks.

Mood. Shut up.

Is that how you landed Violet?

Shut up. No, it was really good. I was just saying, like, it was great.

You should probably check it out.

Structure is non -negotiable for me when approving foster parents.

So our support system, a healthy bank account, family ties.

And a partner.

You are listed as a significant other.

I'd like to talk about that.

This might feel a little uncomfortable, but we'll start with your sex life.

Do you like it? Yeah, sure.

No details needed, but you don't live together.

I'm trying to get a sense of who sleeps over where and how often.

If we place a child, we need to know that the home they're going to is safe,

stable.

Any child placed in my care would be staying at my home with me.

And if Francie needs support, she's sick, as someone in the child's life,

help out?

My job isn't flexible, so...

Right,

but you could ask Manny for less shifts or for some time off.

No, I mean, not really.

I mean, not now, no. Manny just did a briefing on the fire season, and he

us to lock in, so time off isn't really an option.

Right, but you could do a couple of desk shifts.

California is burning, Francine. Like, I can't put out fires behind a desk. I

know.

Oh.

Please.

No, please. Sorry. This is about to be rough right now. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

Hey, Chief Green?

Yeah. Thank you for returning my call.

Thor.

I'm breaking and entering.

Is this what we're doing now?

I'm here.

Come on, mother.

Wait. Hey, hey, hey, don't, don't.

That's how I fell through.

Firefighters. This is my luck.

Yeah, I think the words you're looking for, thank you.

You want to get rescued or you want to stay in that hole?

Hang on, okay? We're coming for you. What's your name? Just come on.

Get me out of here first.

We need a bridge, not boots.

All right.

Are you living here?

Does it matter?

Hey, stop. Don't go through my bag.

Stop. Is there clothes in here every time we get together and make a line?

Uh, not enough.

Tyler here should have packed more.

Screw you.

He's 17.

He's just a kid.

We gotta find something to get him out of here.

Hey, think of it as a rescue on a frozen pond.

We need something that can distribute our weight out.

Where's the table right here?

Yeah, yeah, that'll work. Here, let's flip it.

All right, just hold on, okay? Hold tight, we're gonna get you out.

Yeah,

I know transferring all my guys back to Three Rock is a little unorthodox, but

how long would it take?

When are you coming back? Yeah, well, I need other options after one.

Sorry, I have to make another call. I thought you were going to take this

seriously. I am.

You walked away from the interview. I know. Look, it has been a day. And

through Rock Up and Running, that's my priority right now. I needed to be the

priority for one day. You're right. Just, Manny, drop this on me. So maybe

should... Finish the interview without me. You want me to walk back to the

by myself?

Like I have a stressful job.

Or like you don't actually want to do this with me. Yeah, well, maybe I

shouldn't.

Okay.

Oh, you could be.

I'm almost there.

Yeah, I've got eyes.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, wait.

Slow, slow, slow, slow.

Keep going.

It's all right.

Steady.

One more.

One more. There you go, Biscuit.

Leg's up there, right?

Okay. Okay.

All right, let's go take us home. All right.

You okay?

You good?

Does anything hurt?

I'm fine.

I'm fine. I'm good. No, I'm fine.

You can go now.

Okay, we're not going anywhere.

Some have got a new toy.

Tabletop exercise.

Down in Sacramento, I heard that some of the stations actually use them to train

for real -world situations.

I heard about your takeaway from Sacramento.

Death is imminent.

Everyone should panic.

That's science, Chief.

Otherwise, fires will come.

You just got your first look behind the curtain. Yeah. All it did was get me

motivated. Motivated is good.

Fear is not.

All those... firefighters in your charge. You want to keep them interested

engaged and telling them everything, telling them every little detail.

That's not the way to do it.

Do you have something you need to tell me?

Something about 42?

No.

My mother came into town. I knew I should not have called her, but I did.

now she's here and she went and saw Bodie and gave him this.

Told him this cute little story about how I...

gave it to her for luck. She left out the part that it was because she was

on a date and really wanted to like the guy.

So I sat home alone, and I was eight years old.

Sounds bad.

Yeah, but I refused to tell him the terrible part, so now he thinks she's

Bowie's a grown man.

You cannot blame him for having an opinion.

No, he wants me to give her another chance.

Yeah, well, maybe he's right.

Your mom's out there.

She didn't come today. She might have come tomorrow or sometime.

Point is, Sharon, you were going to have to deal with her someday. Maybe that's

now. So just deal with it.

No.

I saw you had a baseball in there.

I used to play with, uh, what's your position?

Keeping the bench warm.

All right.

You guys got any more questions or are we done here?

All right, let's go outside and we'll call your mom and your dad.

I don't have a dad. I don't need you guys to call anyone.

Okay, well, look, we have to.

Oh, yeah.

A big man, firefighters.

Yeah, you guys weren't such heroes when you couldn't stop that fire from taking

out half the town, huh?

Okay, let's go. No, let me get my stuff first.

No, kid.

Sucker punched by a kid, huh?

You might have to give up your prison card.

The police will know how to handle him.

We don't got to jump straight to police.

He's upstairs.

Right.

Hey, if it's in a house with crumbled floors, it might not go up.

So there's a car there to pull.

Okay. Okay.

All right.

Little punk's lucky he didn't fall into the basement.

There's our commit.

We can go right up.

Look, there's a fella up here. Hey.

Tyler.

Tyler. Look, we need to get downstairs.

And get outside.

You said you wanted to be with me.

I do.

Francine.

I do.

You said you wanted to support me through fostering. Yeah, I meant that. I

mean it. It's just what that caseworker said. I don't want to make promises I

can't keep.

Because Manny needs you?

Yeah.

So what if I do too?

You know I can't walk away from my job. It's too important.

And I'm not.

That's not what I mean.

You are. You are important.

And because I love you, I want to make you and the kid and my job work. But

job would always come first and I would be frustrated.

And so would I.

But I can't walk away from 42.

I'm not asking you to. And I'm not going to go half in on a kid.

It's either all in. Thank God it's all or nothing.

You keep this in there?

Yeah.

It's a reminder to do what I love.

You are a reminder.

I never want either of us to ever be people that don't do exactly what we

Are you sure?

No, I know. I'm sorry.

I just need to hear it. Are you sure that you could never just someday

see yourself with kids?

We're not someday.

We're day.

I love you, Francine.

I love you so much.

But today, my answer is no.

Hey, kid, we're just trying to keep you safe.

Jake. Yeah? I smell that.

Gas. Hey, Tyler.

Tyler, did you mess with the gas line in here?

You're not in trouble, but we have to know right now.

If you turn on the gas, it could be real dangerous.

I turned it on to heat up some food.

A YouTube video showed me how to do it.

It could be leaking everywhere.

Yeah.

Green Cray, Captain Crawford, Station 42.

I have a serious natural gas leak at 214 Pruitt Street.

It's 214 Pruitt Street.

Hey, listen up! This place is filling up with gas!

Unless you want us all to suffocate or blow up, open this damn door!

Hey, it's stuck!

I can't get out!

Here, for the empty table.

I was surprised to hear from you.

How'd you get the money, Ruby?

The old -fashioned way.

Pawned the diamond necklace Gordy gave me.

Sold our trailer, too.

Wow.

Where's Gordy gonna live?

Wherever the hell he wants. That loser left me high and dry.

Oh. I'm sorry.

Yeah, so was I at first. But then after I stopped crying, I realized, wait, I've

been here before way too many times because it's always been about a stupid

It should have been about you and your brother.

And I should have said this a long time ago. I never should have said anything

different. But you're a really good mom, Sharon.

What do you want?

Nothing. I mean it. I'm not your problem. I came here to pay the money

to see your face and Bodie's too, and I'm... Well, thank you.

Here's the thing about me. I... I really like a plan.

I love a schedule, and I just need to feel like I have a little control in the

world. So my plan right now on Tuesdays and Fridays at 8 a .m. is to sit right

there. And I'm going to drink coffee, and there will be a crossword puzzle,

the seat across from me will be empty.

And I can sit in it.

I seem strong, and I even feel strong. I do, but I don't really know if I am.

You know, I can't tell. And, Mom, you are the only person who

always has the ability to break me, so I just got to ask you this one time.

You cannot break me, okay?

No, honey, I won't.

Then you can sit in that booth.

Got it.

Let's get you out of here right now. Let's go.

Stay between us.

Are those cops?

Wait, wait. Are those coming here?

Hey, careful. Hey, wait, wait.

Put it out.

Hey, keep your head down.

No, it's my fault.

No, no.

It's my fault.

It's my fault.

All right, we got this. All right, listen, kid, you want to help? You got

liquid? Big, cut the guy.

Yeah, yeah, I've got some water bottles.

You got it?

Okay, hey, listen.

Hit the base, not the flame with that water, Tyler.

Okay.

Now what?

Hey, Chief.

Hey. About Tree Rock.

Looks like I got two options for you.

Hit me.

Okay, so first one.

We can put in transfers to get our guys pulled from all the camps and prisons

they were sent to.

That's great.

How soon can we get them?

If we're lucky, eight weeks.

Eight weeks?

Eve, that's too long. We need bodies.

What's option B?

Okay.

The DOC has a pilot program for young inmates.

It looks like we can get them in something like two weeks.

Two weeks?

Manny, these guys have no experience.

They're only like 18 to 25 years old. Yeah, but that'd be your job, right?

Get them into fighting shape.

Okay. Look, Eve.

I get it.

It's hard to let go of your old crew.

And I love them, too.

Yeah.

Hold on, hold on.

Is there something else?

Are you good?

Francine and I broke up.

I'm sorry, Eve.

No, you know, it's like what you said.

The world's on fire, so I don't need to get distracted.

No.

No, no, Eve.

That's not what I meant.

No, no, no. You know what? I'm going to let you know when we get the pilot

program locked in.

Okay? Eve.

This is crap.

I'm not hurt.

Just... We gotta get you checked out.

Okay?

Why don't you go ahead and give your mom a call or something? She's out of town.

Without a phone?

Okay.

Look, you know she's gonna find out about all this. You might as well get

of it.

What are you... You gonna write, like, a report or something?

Huh?

What's it gonna say?

The truth.

What happened in there?

I wasn't running away.

You seemed like you were.

No, I was... I was just exploring.

I was just exploring. I was just, like, looking around at things.

Come on, don't say that I ran away.

Please.

I didn't think there was another way that my mother could surprise me, but

did. Not in a bad way.

Lay it on me.

Oh, I think I might have done enough of that earlier.

But the truth is, you were right.

Every year, fire season is worse, and every year it feels like we're fighting

for our lives.

But what I meant to say is we can't lose sight of what we're fighting for,

right? The fire is going to be relentless every year, no matter what.

We have to remember that people need hope.

and relief, but we have to give something back. We have to give people

lives. Ah, Chief.

I'm so far ahead of you.

Look at this.

Really? Really.

This house.

Two adults, four kids, one in a wheelchair.

Over there, an elderly couple, both on oxygen.

Across the street, abandoned, but evidence of squatters.

Edwards.

All right, y 'all. So we have plugs here, here, and here.

And we have a downed power line obstruction right here.

The fire's going to come from the edge of town.

But it's coming in.

Now, IC is established here. So what is our first order of operation?

Start a fire break on the Charlie side of the closest structure.

Yeah, well, we can't because we don't have the body.

Yeah, well.

Now you do.

What is that?

Free rock.

You're damn right it is.

Wait, you guys got the cash?

You got the cash.

All I did was apply for the grant, and it came through to fill in the gap.

Captain Edwards made a miracle happen.

Sorry, they said this was my son Tyler's room.

It is.

It is, though.

Took him back to do some scans.

Bodie Leone. Cal Fire.

Leone.

Right. I'm sorry about your father.

I'm landed.

Thanks.

And, uh... Tyler... Tyler said he didn't have a dad.

I'm his stepdad.

Not on paper. Me and his mom aren't actually married.

Tyler hates me like it's his job.

Yeah, I, uh, you know, I spent some time with him today.

Ah, well, then you see it, right?

A year ago, he was a sweet kid, but recently, the pushing back, the mouthing

off... Did something change recently?

Kids had a real tough run.

His father died right before COVID, and the Fable Ridge fire took our house. We

had to move into a smaller place.

This isn't my business.

Tyler wasn't exploring.

He was running away.

Why would he?

I'm sorry, I'm at a loss here.

We don't know what to do with him.

I'm really sorry to hear that.

I might.

Know what to do.

Finally called your brother.

Didn't think that was going to happen.

I kind of can't believe it, man. Well, it wasn't his best work.

Oh, shut up.

What about you? How you doing?

I'm going to go with bad.

It was pretty damn bad.

Um, I called to get my name changed on Francine's foster application from

relationship to reference.

And the caseworker wanted me to give the reference right then and there.

Oh.

What'd you say?

I said that she's going to be the best mom in the world.

Loves with her whole heart.

She's really funny.

And can't catch a damn ball either with the eye coordination.

But anyway, other than that, she's perfect.

And the hospital said that they're never going to find anybody else like her.

Thanks, bud.

So yeah, I gotta figure out how to be a free woman again, like Bodie over here.

Whoa, come on now, what do you call a woman? What happened to that?

You'd be lucky to be one.

I might be a little less free now.

That kid that we got out of the house.

I'm trying to stay in touch, see if I can help him in any way.

Oh, so you like getting punched in the face.

Got it.

Jake

Crawford?

Hey, I'm looking for Jake Crawford.

You want to stay out of my brother's voicemails and his DMs.

Your brother?

Malcolm. My brother? Hardly.

He and I share a mom, share childhood, share siblings.

You, you happen to share genetics, which you ended up telling him over a

voicemail of all the way.

Look, I was just trying. He is pissed my mom never told him, that I never told

him. He and I have never even had a fight, and now he won't even speak to

Okay, look, I never meant for you... I don't care what you meant to do. What

did do is hurt my little brother.

You want to do right by Malcolm?

You stay the hell away from him.