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Serial Fires - Firefighters in the Heart of Danger
After a hot, dry spring, the woodland around Marseille was ready to go up in flames.
Summer 2016 would be a record breaker in terms of fire. The fire-fighters would need to show what they were made of. To protect the Mediterranean forest, teams of fire-fighters require military technology, operational tactics, social networks and ancestral knowledge. But suspicious fires spreading into urban areas would take them to breaking point. Reinforcements from all over France would be sent to take control.
Directors: Sacha Bollet, Benoit Demarle, Jacques Bedel
Series: Firefighters in the Heart of Danger
0:00 Introduction
1:10 Fire Commissioner, Bouches du Rhône Fire and Rescue Brigade
5:22 Battalion Chief, Tactical fire unit
8:34 Châteauneuf-les-Martigues
9:37 Luynes fire department, near Aix-en-Provence
10:00 Driver engineer, CCF Forest fire truck
16:46 Marignane Civil security air base
17:11 Canadair pilot, instructor
19:13 Officer, Helicopter water bomber
20:49 Forest expert, Officer, Tactical fire unit
29:12 Calanque of Ensuès-la-Redonne
38:22 Officer, Tactical fire unit, National Fire Office
39:01 Marignane Civil security air base
39:24 Chief of technical operations
40:07 Martigues
Published Aug 16, 2022
