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 ...

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

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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 ...

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Brian McCaffrey (William Baldwin) steps into his first day as a firefighter, walking the same halls his father once did, facing wary glances and quiet judgments from the veteran crew. Watching from ...

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 ...

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 ...