James Buchanan is a Fire-medic hanging by a thread. After a series of troubling calls, one involving the death of his estranged father and another where a six-year-old is brutally murdered, he decides to take the law into his own hands when a local child predator has escapes justice. Meanwhile, he confronts his own repressed history of abuse. Back at the station things are crazy as usual. Jim's ladder truck crashes and hangs off a bridge over icy water. He and his captain are rescued from a "Flashover" fire in an attic. Jim's medivac helicopter is shot down and forced to crash land on a bridge, and Jim and his partner Concrete Charlie are beaten senseless by three brawling strippers. During all this, Jim tries to win back his ex-fiance from the hands of a handsome Doctor.