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.
