In the Line of Fire
When bushfires attack, ordinary citizens unite with firefighters to save lives and homes.
© Photo copyright Dean Sewell
Narrated by Jack Thompson
Screening: Tuesday Nights, 8pm throughout December 2007 and January 2008 – Nine Network
4 x 24 minute documentary
completed in 2007
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Executive Producer: CHRIS HILTON | Series Producer: ELLENOR COX | Series Director: MARCUS GILLEZEAU
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Outline
The NSW Rural Fire Service is the largest volunteer fire-fighting force in the world. Ordinary Australians always on call to save lives and homes. ‘In the Line of Fire’ tells their stories.
Bushfires shape the Aussie psyche. Fear of being trapped in a fire or seeing our homes go up in smoke unites the nation. A television first, this gripping 4 part series goes behind the scenes, and with the full support of the NSW RFS, places itself in the centre of the action.
Beyond the jaw-dropping news-flashes of ferocious flames, there are always dramatic human stories that unfold. We meet heroes who battle the blazes head-on, courageous home-owners who manage to save just a few precious belongings, incredible stories of survival and aircraft pilots who fly into the charred and flaming landscape to halt the fire’s spread.
It’s often said that when pushed to extremes the best is brought out in people and this can certainly be said about the fire fighting community. Beyond the inspiring efforts of ordinary folk, In the Line of Fire presents a multi faceted expose on how communities and firefighters pull together in the grip of danger.
Episode 1
Screening date: Tuesday Dec 18th, 2007
The hottest day in 70 years
sees Gosford ringed by
three massive blazes and
1000’s of homes under
threat. Elsewhere, in
regional NSW a tragedy is
unfolding for the fire-fighting
community.
Episode 2
Screening date: Tuesday Jan 1st, 2008
Despite heroic fire fighting
efforts a home and 3 generations
worth of possessions
are lost. Elsewhere,
local RFS brigades are
assisting the NSW Fire
Brigade contain a factory
fire with huge gas tanks
threatening to explode and
damage an entire suburb.
Episode 3
Screening date: Tuesday Jan 8th, 2008
As farmers and the RFS
battle to save a homestead,
fighting fire with fire
becomes the only chance
of stopping a wave of
flames racing across tinder
dry farmland in rural NSW. A separate firestorm is also
about to forever change
the landscape of Canberra.
Episode 4
Screening date: Tuesday Jan 15th, 2008
Canberra is under siege as
400 homes are devastated
by a firestorm of
unprecedented ferocity.
Elsewhere a fire has closed
Australia’s busiest highway
and killed countless stock
and destroyed farmland.
© Photo copyright Dean Sewell