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Chicago Fire’s State Street scene airs

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(Above) Actors Jesse Spencer, Eamonn Walker, Charlie Barnett, and Marina City in a scene filmed on the State Street Bridge on February 5 for the NBC television show Chicago Fire. (Click on image to view larger version.)

February 28, 2013 – Marina City and the State Street Bridge made their Chicago Fire debut as a scene filmed on February 5 aired Wednesday night on NBC.

In the three-minute scene for the episode Better to Lie, a Chicago Fire Department truck goes east on Wacker Drive, then west on Wacker Drive, and finally arrives from the north on State Street just shy of the bridge. They find a Buick LaSabre has struck a bicycle messenger and crashed into a light pole. The driver of the car is gone. A passenger is stuck. The messenger is under the car, gone to bike messenger heaven.

Fire fighters soon track down the driver on the State Street Bridge – on the wrong side of the railing – looking like he is going to jump into the Chicago River. Trying to lure him back, Peter Mills, played by Charlie Barnett, tells the man that the messenger is ok – which is kind of untrue – but it works.

“I figured it was better to lie to him and get him down,” says Mills. “He can get over it later.”

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