NYFD station chief Owen Strand, the lone survivor of his Manhattan firehouse on 9/11, initially declines a request to move to Texas to rebuild the fire-wrecked crew of Austin city's firehouse 126. After a diagnosis with probably terminal but mid-term-manageable cancer and his doting, ex-junk twen son and fellow fireman T.K.'s failed suicide attempt by drug relapse after a year over his gay fiance's confession of infidelity, California-born Owen decides they both need a fresh start and accepts to move, for good. He recruits a crew form all over the US and makes lots of changes, while winning sympathy. T.K.'s reluctance to leave his friends and sophisticated Manhattan for redneck Dixieland soon wears off, as they find unsuspected modernity all over Austin, and T.K. a hot Latino crew-mate as gay playmate.
—KGF Vissers