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The Life of Filming Firefighters

October 7, 2013
By Kjohnson3418 BRONZE, Bremen, Indiana
Kjohnson3418 BRONZE, Bremen, Indiana
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All of a sudden Taylor and Jesse heard there phones ring. They stopped playing catch and sprinted inside. Taylor answered his phone and Jesse answered his phone. They both then looked at each other, both with questioning looks on there faces. They then ended there phone calls.

“Did you get the part?” Taylor and Jesse exclaimed at each other at the same time.

“Yeah!!!” they both excitedly said.

Taylor and Jesse both ended up getting two of the main roles. Taylor will play the role of Lieutenant Kelly Severide of Squad 3. Jesse will play the role of Lieutenant Matthew Casey of Truck 81. They had to be in Chicago in two weeks to start the film and meet the rest of the cast they would be filming with.

Two weeks have passed and the two guys have finally left Australia and moved to Chicago. The first day they had to meet the film crew, stunt and fire coordinator, cast, and producers. Everybody went through their lines and practiced for two days straight no breaks but for lunch. The cast, producers and the coordinators finally started filming.

Taylor and Jesse were driving the ladder truck to one of the scenes. The roads were icy and snowy and they were going slow, but the truck had no tire traction at all. They hit a super icy spot and the fire truck started to slide,flipped and kept rolling. Truck 81 finally stopped rolling. Taylor lifted his head and glanced at Jesse. He wasn't moving and wasn't talking. Taylor put his hand up to his neck and felt for a pulse. Taylor found an irregular pulse. Taylor got out of the truck and went around to the other side of the door and opened it. He pulled Jesse out and started doing CPR.

“Come on Jesse!!! Come back! Don't leave me now!” Taylor said scared and crying.

In the distance he hears sirens and is just awaiting there arrival to try and save Jesse. They pulled up fast and put Jesse in a C-Collar, put him on the backboard and put him in the back of the ambulance. The paramedics let Taylor ride in the back of the rig to help them perform CPR on him. They got to the hospital and they immediately got him in a hospital room and continued to work on him. Taylor, the cast, and the coordinators all sat not patiently waiting for news. Taylor stood there pacing the room back and forth for almost twenty minutes until he saw the doctor down the hall.

Taylor slowly walks down to the doctor while the rest of the crew watches and waits from afar. The doctor slowly puts his hand on Taylor's shoulder and the whole crew heard a loud sobbing “NO” come from Taylor. Charlie shoved his way through the rest of the crew and fast paced walked down to Taylor and grabbed him as the rest of the crew stood by watching, knowing he was gone.

The next few days were a blur. They had to cancel all film productions for everybody to process what happened. Close friends were awaiting funeral arrangements. The producers paid everybody that was associated with the Chicago Fire film there airplane tickets to Australia to be in attendance for the funeral. Everyone was hoping and praying that Taylor would be able to recover and stay strong through this.

As we go into the next week, filming continues with everybody trying to act as normal as possible. They get through the first few days, then the drama in the show is supposed to happen. They continued filming with a accident happening in the show and killing Jesse. They filmed all the shows of season one and they all ended up moving to L.A to fulfill there careers in acting.


The author's comments:
This was a assignment for our english class.

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