This episode was written by Christopher Judge (Teal'c) himself. He also wrote Season 5's The Warrior (2002), Season 7's Birthright (2003) and Season 8's Sacrifices (2004).
The story was partly inspired by a fireman show that Richard Dean Anderson was considering starting.
Christopher Judge's (Teal'c) second wife, Gianna Patton, appears as a nurse in this episode. They had met a few years prior on the set of the show and after this episode, they became engaged. The couple's baby was born the year after the engagement. A final divorce from Judge's first wife, Margaret Judge, was not enacted until several years later. He married Patton soon after the divorce was finalized.
In his dreams, Teal'c is part of the Coquitlam fire department. Coquitlam is a suburb of Vancouver B.C. Stargate SG-1 (1997) was mostly shot in nearby Burnaby.
Amanda Tapping's real life husband, Allan Kovacs, is in the beginning of the episode when the alarm goes off. He is the first down the pole who starts running.