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‘Fire Country’ Co-Creator on Plans to ‘Build Out a Franchise’ and Mixed Reactions From Cal Fire Firefighters


'Fire Country' co-creator Tony Phelan talks the possible spinoff of the CBS procedural.

to see that not only did Gabriela (Stephanie Arcila) start dating someone two months after Bode (Max Thieroit) left — she originally visited him in prison and he refused to see her, plus her letters went without a response — but that she is engaged to her new boyfriend, Diego (Rafael de la Fuente), by the end of the first episode. “Shows that do 22 episodes a season for a couple of years, there is an ease to them, and you really do get to see these characters in all sorts of different situations. They think that the show portrays firefighters and these first responders as heroes, which is how we see them, leading very complicated lives,” he tells Variety.

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