The bride-to-be, after the 2005 fire where she would meet her future husband. Photo: Todd Maisel/New York Daily News

Yesterday, the Daily News profiled a romance between a Bay Ridge woman and the firefighter who helped put out the December 2005 apartment fire.

That night, [Diane] Sanchez went back to the waterlogged apartment to retrieve some belongings, then went to O’Sullivan’s Bar and Grill to unwind.

The day’s Daily News was on the bar, and Sanchez got to talking to suds slinger Eddie Curtis about her headline-grabbing ordeal.

Sitting at the other end of the bar was [Kevin] Molloy. Sanchez had no idea he was one of the guys who came to her rescue the day before, though he recognized her.

“Kevin remembered me because it was 10 days before Christmas,” she said. “He remembered the look on my face.”

“She looked like she was crying,” Molloy recalled.

When Curtis found out the Ladder 109 member had responded to Sanchez’s apartment, he dragged the firefighter down to her end of the bar.

“I think you should thank this man,” Curtis told her.

“Why?” Sanchez asked.

“I was at your fire yesterday,” Molloy explained.

This would make a great episode of Rescue Me. I mean, you can’t have something this sweet on TV without changing some major facts and adding some drama – sweet is boring! No, the TV/Rescue Me version of this story should have Molloy character portrayed by one of the playboy firefighters, and that character would be juggling two other chicks at the same time. And the Sanchez character would really be an arsonist who set fires specifically to be picked up by firefighters, because Rescue Me always wrote strong, female characters that way. I bet a good writer could milk this story arc over two or three episodes. There, I just wrote a TV script.

Assuming this episode hasn’t already been written.

In all honesty, congrats to the lucky couple, and I hope no one shamelessly lifts their story from the headlines for the sake of TV drama – sounds like a perfect story just the way it is.