"We juggled shifts so the city never was without protection. "The safety of Baltimore residents never was compromised," he said. "It was appealing to us because this gave us a chance to talk to people about what we do," he said.Ībout 300 of the department's 1,700 firefighters and personnel participated in some way in the production of "Ladder 49," according to Yant, the film's technical adviser, though he emphasized that the filming never resulted in empty fire stations. In addition, Baltimore is among the 10 busiest fire departments in the nation, Goodwin said, with more than 100,000 responses a year to reports of fires, hazardous materials and medical emergencies. "We told them that as long as they portrayed the city and the department fairly, we would cooperate in any way we could," Goodwin said. But Baltimore offered unprecedented firehouse access to the cast and crew. New York and Philadelphia also were competing for the movie, and filming costs in Toronto are particularly low. "Ladder 49" could just as easily have been made elsewhere.
"It's very important to our image, so that people may see this movie and say, 'Hey, Maryland might be a nice place to go."' "It's hard to measure, but it definitely counts," said Ehrlich. "I want to thank director Jay Russell for filming this great film in the greatest city in America," O'Malley said to the crowd.Įhrlich, his wife Kendel alongside him (she actually spent a day on the set, he noted with pride, but wasn't on film), spoke glowingly of the effect movies filmed and set in Baltimore have on civic pride. made nice, smiling and waving at each other as the traditional sidewalk block decorated for the premiere was unveiled.
Even political rivals O'Malley and Ehrlich Jr.
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