Big Question From Fire Country’s Finale Finally Answered: What Happened to the Masks?

After CBS‘ Fire Country served up its intense, two-hour Season 3 finale, many of our readers were left fretting over the fates of Vince (played by Billy Burke), Sharon (Diane Farr) and Walter (Jeff Fahey), who were last seen pinned inside the memory care facility just as its roof collapsed due to raging flames.

A few readers, though, were a bit preoccupied by the fact that Vince and Sharon, like son Bode before them, had darted into that building without their firefighters’ SCBA (self-contained breathing apparatus).

“Since when do firefighters enter burning buildings without breathing apparatus and masks?” asked one commenter. Echoed another, “Where are all the breathing apparatuses and oxygen tanks?”

A third reader shrugged, “I guess smoke inhalation and standard oxygen tanks for firemen are not a thing for Fire Country!”

As TVLine does, we hand-delivered your query to series co-creator and star Max Thieriot, during a red carpet interview at Wednesday evening’s CBS Fest ’25 event.

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Regarding Bode and Walter, who were first in when the priority was simply evacuating the latter’s memory care facility with the fast-moving Zabel Ridge blaze closing in, “They weren’t anticipating the fire being on the building yet,” Thieriot reminds in the video above.

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