Belwood Graphics

Belwood Graphics Specialize in creating custom signs, magnets, and other fire items. EMERGENCY!, Chicago Fire, FDNY, LACoFD and everywhere in between!
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🚨Had a request from a customer in NYC for this special sticker… it was an honor to make them for him. 🚨Never forget. 🚨
06/19/2026

🚨Had a request from a customer in NYC for this special sticker… it was an honor to make them for him. 🚨Never forget. 🚨

🚨Remember the fireboat in Backdraft? CFD Engine 58… this thing was super cool inside! 🚨(Backdraft comparison photo, Mike...
06/02/2026

🚨Remember the fireboat in Backdraft? CFD Engine 58… this thing was super cool inside! 🚨(Backdraft comparison photo, Mike Murr)

🚨Pictures CFD’s Engine 2🚨
06/02/2026

🚨Pictures CFD’s Engine 2🚨

06/02/2026

🚨Had the once in a lifetime opportunity to take a ride on Chicago Fire Developments Engine 2. 🚨

🚨A customer from eBay sent me a picture of the bench project he took on outside of Collingdale Fire Station 33 in Pennsy...
05/31/2026

🚨A customer from eBay sent me a picture of the bench project he took on outside of Collingdale Fire Station 33 in Pennsylvania. Looks awesome! 🚨

🚨Created this retirement sign for a customer recently! 🚒 The size is 16x24. 🚨
05/30/2026

🚨Created this retirement sign for a customer recently! 🚒 The size is 16x24. 🚨

05/30/2026

He Was Broken. He Still Ran Into the Fire.
Tommy Gavin wasn't a hero in the clean, Hollywood sense of the word. He was something more complicated — and because of that, something far more real.
The central character of Rescue Me, which ran on FX from 2004 to 2011, Tommy was brought to life by Denis Leary with a rawness that made viewers uncomfortable in the best possible way. Full name Thomas Michael Gavin. Lieutenant — later Captain — at the fictional FDNY Ladder Company 62. Third-generation firefighter. The job wasn't just what he did. It was everything he was.
But September 11 cracked him open.
Tommy lost friends in the attacks. He lost his cousin Jimmy Keefe. And unlike the movies, Rescue Me didn't let him grieve cleanly and move on. It showed what actually lingers — the hallucinations, the guilt, the faces of people he couldn't save appearing in quiet moments when he least expected them. The PTSD that never announces itself politely. The alcoholism that fills the space where peace used to be.
Off the job, his life was chaos — divorce, affairs, family fractures, addiction, decisions made by a man who was brilliant at saving strangers and terrible at saving himself. And yet his crew at Ladder 62 in Harlem would follow him anywhere. Because when the alarm sounded, Tommy Gavin showed up. Every single time.
That was the tension Rescue Me held for seven seasons — a man who functioned best in the place that was slowly destroying him. The firehouse as sanctuary. The fire as the only thing that made the noise in his head go quiet.
By the final season, Tommy wanted out. Wanted calm. Wanted something resembling a normal life. But firefighting doesn't release people that easily — not when it's woven into your blood across three generations.
Tommy Gavin was fictional. But the struggles he carried? Those belonged to real men and real women who came home from September 11 and spent years trying to figure out how to live with what they saw.
Rescue Me made sure we didn't look away from that.

🚨Getting some product made up of the Peotone Fire Swap meet on June 20!🚨
05/27/2026

🚨Getting some product made up of the Peotone Fire Swap meet on June 20!🚨

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