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The Story Behind How Max Thieriot’s Own Life Experiences Inspired CBS’ Fire Country
Max Thieriot as Bode talking to his captain in Fire Country.
For Max Thieriot, Fire Country isn’t just another firefighter show, it’s personal. The actor, who is also the co-creator, co-writer, executive producer, and occasional director of the show grew up in Northern California in a town that had a fire inmate camp like Three Rock, and he felt like it would make for a great series. Now, the CBS drama has become a smash hit, and people have been really drawn into the story of Bode Donovan and Three Rock. With that said, let’s take a look back at what inspired the series, and how the SEAL Team star drew on his own life experiences to create Fire Country.
Fire Country follows Bode, an inmate played by Thieriot, who is transferred to an inmate fire camp in Edgewater, California. As Season 1 played out, we learned Bode’s family and friends live in this town too, and they’re all firefighters. Each week the series featured a new fire, or issues solved by firefighters, and showed how the inmate camp is integrated into the community to help extinguish problems. For Thieriot, these kinds of stories were something he experienced growing up as he told Variety:
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