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Realistic Movie First I must qualify that my husband and I are members of a volunteer Ambulance organization in which he is the training officer. For those of you comparing this to Backdraft,please don't. Backdraft is an unrealistic(Lot's of saftey flaws that firemen would NEVER do!!! But it was good)Action Movie with a little drama. Ladder 49 is a very realistic Drama with some action. This movie appears to have been very well researched. We found no faults in how the rescues were performed, they followed protcall. There was only one scene where Jack was separated from his partner while rescuing a little girl. This should not have happened. Firemen are trained to stay with there partner during a search and rescue but I guess realisticlly, people may not always follow protocall and things like this would happen. For people who are complaining about the drinking and pranks involved in the movie. That's life, people do those things. Please remember that firemen work 24hr shifts and do unwind afterwards. Also, the pranks are normal. I see guys I work with pulling pranks on each other all of the time and I work in an office with educated people. The pranks are not always polically correct. Get over it, people do pranks. Oh yes, the things done with the firetruck such as a Wedding and other things are done. I have seen it in my own town. Firemen across the country do this. For those of you worrying about your taxes paying for this, please remember that firemen are underpaid for what they do. And it's not everday somebody gets marrried. I thought this was a very good movie. It was a very emotional drama.