Watchdog knocks firefighters for violations while working on 'Chicago Fire'

Two Chicago Fire Department employees worked as extras on the "Chicago Fire" TV show when they shouldn't have been doing so, city Inspector General Joseph Ferguson said Thursday in a report that highlighted several apparent violations by employees working on the NBC show.

In one case, a deputy district chief was on duty while he worked on the hit program, which focuses on the lives and loves of a bunch of exceedingly good looking Chicago firefighters and often uses real firefighters as extras, Ferguson said in his quarterly report.

The deputy district chief retired before he could be disciplined, but Ferguson's report says the city Law Department sought compensation and received a full payment of $1,634 for the time he was on duty while on the set of the show.

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