Your Chance to Live: Forest Fire (1973)
1973 · Short film · 11 min
- Documentary
Synopsis
Dramatizes the dilemma of a father and son who are trapped by a forest fire. Stresses the deadly realities of a forest fire's devastating power while detailing the hikers' escape and showing firefighters at work. Designed to stimulate discussion on civil preparedness for forest fires.
Synopsis from TMDb
Details
- Studio
- Defense Civil Preparedness Agency
- Released
- 1973-01-01
- Running time
- 11 minutes
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★ · The Morgans are in trouble! · ElrodArcher · 2018-06-23
Another entry in the Your Chance To Live series. This time, we're dealing with wildfire. These short films present information about whatever disaster they are covering coupled with a story that serves to heighten interest in the film. In this case, Charles and Scott Morgan are hiking to their favorite campground when they encounter...a forest fire! Just before they encounter the fire, the voiceover is of the forecast for severe fire weather conditions that one would think they might have listened for before setting off on a trip like this, especially if they live in an area prone to…
★★ · Burn baby burn! · Spuzz · 2018-11-17
A slow moving forest fire movie. The Morgans happen across a fire, and they run run run to get away from it! That's almost half the movie! The other half basically, I dunno, tells of how dangerous it is, and how it's being battled. Oh, and we have PLENTY of forest fire footage. Too much actually.
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