The city’s hopes for a glitzy benefit premiere of Backdraft, Universal Pictures’ $40 million summer picture about Chicago fire fighters, appear to be going up in flames. With $20 million of its ...

Eager to prove his worth, rookie firefighter Brian McCaffrey (William Baldwin) stages a daring rescue through the flames—only ...

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The former Chicago firefighter who served as the inspiration for Robert De Niro's arson investigator role in the blockbuster film "Backdraft" has died. WSPY News reports that Donald Rimgale passed ...

Stephen "Bull" McCaffrey (Kurt Russell) proves why he's a legend, braving a lethal inferno without a mask to pull a trapped ...

Donald S. Rimgale was a Chicago firefighter and fire investigator who inspired the character played by Robert De Niro in “Backdraft,” the 1991 movie set and filmed in Chicago. “He was really just ...

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CHICAGO - Several firefighters have been taken to hospitals with injuries that are not life-threatening after a “flashover” erupted during a house fire causing a mayday emergency call Saturday ...