No. Executive Producer Wolf hired two writers with experience scripting a western, although, as is standard procedure, Wolf claimed to have a consultant from the Chicago Fire Department to help out with the accuracy thing, but apparently one the writers and the producer didn’t listen to. Wolf must have walked into the first script meeting with these instructions: Give me two lieutenants who look good with their shirts off, give me a contrived kindergarten conflict between the two LTs, give me an LT on a rescue squad with a drug problem, give me a firefighter losing his home to foreclosure, give me a lesbian medic, give me one black authority figure as a battalion chief so the show won’t look racist with no other blacks except for stereotyped gangstas in the second run scene, a medical call to a gunshot wound, and let’s give the other LT, the one on the ladder, an engagement that failed–and the battalion chief has been divorced twice. And, by the way, don’t worry too much about the technical stuff. This show is character driven, and most viewers don’t know a hydrant from a Halligan anyway, so don’t worry too much about accuracy with setting and action.