Do good deeds ever go unpunished? Meet firefighter Sean Sullivan, a surly oversized gorilla with a short temper, big mouth, and a penchant for blackmail. He also happens to suffer from a rather unfortunate condition--Pyrophobia, an all consuming fear of fire. He tolerates the citizens who inhabit his troubled mid-western city even less; morbidly obese prostitutes, roaming street gangs of old women in ridiculous red hats, his irritating coworkers... But when Captain Butch Harris dies hours before shift, Sullivan hatches a reckless plan to recover a $500,000 line of duty death benefit that sets a bizarre chain of events into motion. Soon, Sullivan and his crew of reluctant accomplices find themselves dodging homicidal hippies, peeping toms, and a horde of hairy knuckled transvestites all the while being relentlessly pursued by a geriatric dominatrix as they struggle to save their jobs, stay out of jail, and with a bit of luck not, kill each other along the way