“Fire Chasers” documentary series to premiere September 8

Above: Official trailer for the new series “Fire Chasers”.

Netflix has announced that the premiere of their new Fire Chasers documentary miniseries will air on September 8, 2017. They are calling it “Season 1” and there is no official word on the number of episodes or seasons, but we heard one unofficial report that there would be four episodes with the third covering the 1966 Loop Fire on the Angeles National Forest that killed 12 firefighters.

The program will concentrate on fires and firefighters in California. Original Productions (Deadliest Catch) produced the project, which will follow both the Los Angeles County Fire Department and CAL FIRE, including women on inmate crews.

The only public screening prior to the series launch will take place on Tuesday, September 5 at 7 p.m. at the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica, California. Following the screening of the first one-hour episode, KCET Cinema Series Host and Deadline.com Chief Film Critic Pete Hammond will moderate a Q&A panel discussion about the film and the issues around fire prevention.

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Author: Bill Gabbert

After working full time in wildland fire for 33 years, he continues to learn, and strives to be a Student of Fire.

6 thoughts on ““Fire Chasers” documentary series to premiere September 8”

  1. Why was our forest service not involved, seeing that handle 99.9% of our fires. Or do we just pretend they don’t exist.

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  2. i talked to Daniel,it is his voice,but he didnt do any recordings for the program,all of his voice are sound bites from news interviews and the calfire youtube pages.

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  3. Really, running downhill into a fire burning upslope with what looks like a upslope wind, say it ain’t so!

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  4. Any idea of who the narrator is at the very start?..sound like Daniel Berlant from Cal Fire to me.he was the local PIO,been promoted now.

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  5. I hope this show doesn’t inspire a bunch of unqualified people to become self-appointed “fire chasers” who end up interfering with suppression operations!

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    1. This is my concern as well. As a fire photographer in CA (I shot for Corbis Images and now Zuma Press) that has the gear, took the red card class, follows the rules (written and unwritten) of the fireline, and has earned the respect of many of the CalFire crews and BCs, I fear the exact same thing that happened with “Storm Chasers” will happen again. Whackers who want to be the next Discovery channel star giving the whole industry a bad name. Respect takes a long time to earn, but is gone in a flash.

      And don’t even get me started on the uninitiated wannabe stringers pulling out drones…

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