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Re: Staten Island & fires: it's the least densely populated borough out of the 5 boroughs which comprise NYC. It tends to be a lot of 1 or 2 family homes especially on the South Shore (which I'm guessing is where Tommy's been stationed). There's more space between the houses so fire would be less likely to spread. House & car fires would be what he dealt w/for the most part. But there have been some incidents like when some LNG tanks went up or 9/11 when a lot of the North Shore fire teams responded. And a lot of off duty firefighters reported to the towers on 9/11. Almost 80 (of the 343) of the firefighters killed that day were were from Staten Island. Which for 5% of the population of the city is a lot.

I think the Staten Island transfer refers to the "Southern Comfort House" incident. Back after the New Year's Eve 2003 Scandal where 2 guys got into an argument w/Elvis and one bashed the other in the head w/a chair, sending him into a coma, news articles revealed that's where firefighters w/problems were sent to keep them out of trouble because it wasn't as busy. It was revealed subsequent to the incident several of the folks involved had DWI or DUI records.

Now, back to the show, very interesting. I completely understand Mike & Johnny's frustration. And the part where he goes after Ground Zero vendors? They may have exaggerated a bit, but when I see some of the tchokes they're trying to sell on sacred ground/nearby, I've wanted to flip a few tables myself. It's one of the few things he's done on the show he shouldn't have been arrested for doing.

His treatment of Shelia is pretty awful. Whatever happens, they have a kid together and he needs to get a grip. Though it's interesting in the promos she's shown drinking & tempting him to drink after AA.

The scene w/Sean & the monkey in the vet's office was very funny. As for the Laura plotline, I wish they would let the rest of the guys see the fact that Laura did acknowledge he had a right to criticize her firefighting abilities and she did try to deal w/the insult outside of the dept.

The Kenny/Laura situation is more like what it would've been like if Tommy tried to pull rank on New Mike when he objected to the comment Tommy made about him. I don't know if it would've changed anyone's minds, but I'd prefer they know the whole story, which is that Kenny was the one who pulled the official dept. card first by reminding Laura he outranked her when she told him to apologize or she'd take care of him outside of the system. I'm guessing that's why he went for sensitivity training instead of the deny everything tactic. He's trying to make Laura look like the bad guy (or person). And his comments to her after the locker prank on Sean were another attempt of his to prove how much of one of the guys he is. I hope the rest of the guys find out how he tried to pull rank on her.