Anthony Ferraris is a firefighter with the Chicago Fire Department. He also portrays himself (as Tony Ferraris) in the Chicago Fire series.
Career[]
Ferraris is an actual firefighter with the Chicago Fire Department, and is currently the Engineer assigned to Rescue Squad 2 based out of Firehouse 91 in the Avondale area of Chicago.
He started acting when the Firefighter's Union sent an email to firefighters in the CFD about Chicago Fire looking for extras to star in the show. He began just driving the Rescue Squad 3 vehicle, but eventually started having his own lines[1] and he has now starred in over 200 episodes[2] of Chicago Fire and even a few episodes of Chicago PD and Chicago Med.