Chicago Fire (TV Series)

Sacred Ground (2019)

Eamonn Walker: Wallace Boden

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• Wallace Boden : [Addressing the firefighters at the monument for Otis]  Come on, guys. Gather around. Who's going to remember us? It's a question that all of us who do this job, we ask ourselves at one moment or another. Who will remember our work after we're gone? Brian Zvonecek. He was our brother, he was a friend, he was a hell of a firefighter. He was smart, he was funny, he was kind, he was unselfish, and he was loyal. So If you see someone a fellow firefighter, citizen, friend standing looking at this memorial, I want you to come down this apron and you tell them about Brian. You tell them the story about who Brian was, the kind of man he was. That way, you will bring this memorial to life. Yeah, I looked it up. Those were Brian's last words and they mean, Brother, I will be with you always. I can't think of a better way to remember Brian. So from this day forward this memorial site is sacred ground.

• Wallace Boden : [At the hearing where the board is trying to blame Captain Casey, Chief Boden interrupts the questioning]  That's right. I say, I'll send them in. The order was mine. In a fire scene, in all the chaos and unpredictability, a firefighter can only relay back to his incident commander the information he has at the time, but it is up to the chief to make a decision where or when to send the additional resources. Now in front of you, you should all have letters from Emily Foster and Sylvie Brett testifying that they would have entered the factory anyway. But those letters don't matter because it was I, not Captain Casey, not anyone else, but I who ordered them into the fire scene. So if you are looking to blame someone, if you are looking for a human scapegoat, blame me.