They fight fires for reel

Cast of the spoof show ‘Tacoma FD’ bumps up against real thing during filming.

If there’s one thing to be expected from the creators of “Super Troopers,” it’s a workplace stoner comedy involving people in uniform with too much time on their hands. What’s less expected is their having to reckon with that comedy suddenly becoming topical.

Such was the situation on a recent afternoon in Woodland Hills, which stood as the improbable yet effective location for “Tacoma FD,” the upcoming TruTV series led by “Super Troopers” cocreators Steve Lemme and Kevin Heffernan, which will premiere in the spring.

Set at a Pacific Northwest firehouse in what the show’s press materials describe as “the wettest city in America,” the series fits squarely in the wheelhouse both for the laugh-centric cable network and the two comics. Their Broken Lizard troupe created the 2002 cult comedy “Super Troopers” and 2018 sequel, which both centered on the prank-riddled high jinks of a sleepy highway patrol unit in Vermont (the group is in talks for a third movie).

Any resemblance between “Super Troopers” and this series, as far as its creators are concerned, is purely intentional.

“We’ve been trying to get on TV for a while,” Lemme says, wearing a firehouse Tshirt and, crucially, his familiar dark mustache from “Super Troopers” that pairs well with either uniform. “We kind of walked it backwards: What do people really want