The members of Fire Co. 132 are led by Captain Jack Malloy. The rest of the team include: the experienced Kay Rizzo, a brave firefighter who doesn't open up easily; Ray Grimes, a courageous black firefighter for whom this job was a way out of the Ghetto; Lenny Rose, the team's greenhorn who keeps bringing his kinky girlfriend Flame to the fire station; the spiritually inclined J.B. Baker; and Phil Regan, an old school friend of Jack who is starting to get sloppy. The team's newest member is Erin Coffy. Although a gifted firefighter, Erin is constantly getting a somewhat skeptical eye from her father, fire brigade boss Dick Coffy. Erin is also struggling with a crush on Jack. The team runs into problems while trying to evacuate a burning house. J.B. is confronted with an overweight woman who refuses to leave her house and points a shotgun at him. Meanwhile, Phil panics, leaving his partner Jack alone. Luckily, a branch on the extendible ladder turns out to be the last-minute rescue for

Erin appears to still have a crush on Jack, so she asks Kay if she's sleeping with him. Kay lies that she isn't. Still dissatisfied with Mike, Jack works on Dick to get him to transfer Mike to another unit. Bernie brings Norman to the police. Detective Cerone promises that there's going to be a lot of publicity and the very fire-fascinated Norman confesses to being the arsonist. Jack argues with Laura and they accuse each other of seeing other people. Bernie is far from convinced that Norman in the arsonist and wants Cerone to check if the fingerprints he has found matches Norman's. Cerone, however, doesn't think it's necessary, so Bernie has to go to Dorfman for help again. The results come as no surprise: the prints don't match. Bernie goes to the D.A. and an angered and embarrassed Cerone has to let Norman go. However, thanks to Norman's confession there's a big lynching mob that harasses Norman and his mother. Erin confronts Kay again and this times she confesses to having slept wi