Filled with gripping moments of firefighters battling flames and trying to save lives, intense drama inside the firehouse and homes and the humor of a brotherhood forged in the heat, "Ladder 49 ...

While Sept. 11 helped embellish the already heroic image of firefighters, "Ladder 49" doesn't owe any direct debt to such recent events. It plays, rather, like an old-fashioned, by-the-numbers ...

While growing up in Australia, actress Jacinda Barrett had a frightening brush with death when she got caught in the pull of a powerful ocean wave and nearly drowned. But the 33-year-old stunner ...

In the opening scene, fireman Jack Morrison (Joaquin Phoenix) and other members of Ladder 49 enter a huge burning building. Conflagration has engulfed the edifice and the men search, eventually ...