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Fire Country

American TV drama series

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ114434662 ↗
Source-derived summary

Fire Country is an American action drama television series created by Max Thieriot, Tony Phelan and Joan Rater for CBS, starring Thieriot. It is produced by Jerry Bruckheimer Television and CBS Studios. The series premiered on October 7, 2022. The fifth season is scheduled to premiere on October 9, 2026.

Premise

Bode Donovan is a young convict with a troubled past. Hoping to redeem himself and shorten his prison sentence, he volunteers for the California Conservation Camp Program in which prisoners assist the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, known as Cal Fire. He ends up getting assigned to his hometown in Northern California, the fictional town of Edgewater, and the nearby Cal Fire station called Three Rock, where he works alongside former friends, other inmates, and veteran firefighters tasked with putting out the wildfires that plague the region.

Cast and characters

Main

Max Thieriot as Bode Donovan-Leone, a former inmate firefighter, now a Cal Fire firefighter.

Kevin Alejandro as Manuel "Manny" Perez, Gabriela's father and a Cal Fire firefighter, now Station 42 Battalion Chief. He is the former Captain of Three Rock.

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“Fire Country” enters the record as american TV drama series. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Fire, Country and American can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2022, 2026—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Fire, Country and American.
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“Fire Country” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Fire, Country and American provides the most credible route into that argument.

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This entry incorporates text from “Fire Country” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.