This is the first Season of Rescue Me . Throughout the first season of '' Rescue Me '' , Tommy is living across the street from his estranged wife Janet in Queens . in the premiere , he gives a speech about being a firefighter and he is the first Commanding Officer of 62 Truck . His cousin , Jimmy Keefe , a firefighter from Tommy 's company who died on 9/11 , visits him as a ghost . Tommy and Sheila ( his cousin Jimmy 's widow ) start to have an affair with each other . When confronted about their relationship , he refuses to end it because Sheila is pregnant . At the end of the season , he requests a transfer after a breakdown during a rescue that resulted in injury to his co-worker , Firefighter Franco Rivera 's life . His wife and children leave their home and move
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September 11 attacks
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