Geronimo1967
Apparently there is a call to a fire station every other minute in the United States, causing over 10,000 deaths a year and $600 millions in damage. Over twenty thousand fires occur in Los Angeles alone and thats where this short documentary takes us, as we follow the fire crews attending everything from a cigarette-burned mattress to a 400-pupil wooden school now little more than kindling. We learn a little of the hectic nature of their jobs, their unpredictable eating habits and of their attempts to warn Joe or Jean public of the dangers of hoarding or overloading power sockets or leaving the wet laundry on a power extension. This latter element does rather presuppose that its the housewife thats to blame, but I suppose thats how the film...