Yant said that one particularly daring rescue in the film is based on real life. In the early 1990s, a high-rise in Times Square caught fire. The New York fire department lowered a firefighter down a rope outside the building to where the trapped victim waited by the window.

Grew up… in Baltimore. Jack made his way through fire academy, and afterwards, he has the opportunity to work for the Baltimore City Fire Department Engine Company 33, one of the most engaged and hardest-working companies in the city.

“I love Joaquin. I’ve had enough attention for seven lifetimes.” Travolta and Phoenix are here promoting “Ladder 49.” The film, which opens today, stars Phoenix as a veteran Baltimore firefighter who mulls his career while trapped in a burning building and awaiting rescue.

The shadows of 9/11 certainly fall on Ladder 49, the first movie about firemen to be released since that tragedy. 2004 | PG-13 | CC. Jack dies because he is trapped where the other firefighters can’t get him.

October 1, 2004 (USA)

As the years go by, Jack suffers some traumatic experiences, including rescuing a man from the ledge of a burning high-rise building in Downtown Baltimore, and witnessing another friend and fellow firefighter from Ladder 49, Tommy Drake (Morris Chestnut), burned beyond recognition following a steam explosion at an …

Firefighters respond to fires, accidents and other incidents where there are risks to life and property. Full-time firefighters help protect the public in emergency situations. They respond to a wide variety of calls: as well as fires, they assist at car crashes, chemical spills, flooding and water rescue.

Backdraft | 1991 Ron Howard’s firefighter epic – great conflagrations, sudsy plotlines – was filmed in the Chicago neighbourhoods of Oak Park (home to the Frank Lloyd Wright museum and many of his houses – the elevator shaft scenes filmed here) and Hinsdale.

1h 55m

Intense fire-related violence and peril, characters hurt and killed. Sexual situation and references.

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Brian (William Baldwin) manages to figure out that Adcox (Scott Glenn), a firefighter who was like an uncle to Brian and his brother Stephen (Kurt Russell) when their father died is the one responsible for the backdraft fires that killed the three associates of city alderman Swayzak (J.T. Walsh).

By opening a large hole in the roof heat and smoke can quickly be removed from the structure. This rapidly improves conditions inside the building, hastening fire suppression.

A backdraft can only occur when there is a hot, fuel-rich fire compartment with a limited air supply, such that the fire becomes highly ventilation-limited or is extinguished, possibly with residual smoldering or hot spots remaining [2].

A backdraft is caused by the sudden introduction of air into a fire that has depleted most of the available oxygen in a room or building. When a fire has depleted most of its oxygen, the flames will die down, but the fuel will still burn in a smoldering state and still generate heat, like with charcoal.