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Title NOVA - Fire Wars.

Publication Info. [San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2015.

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Description 1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 115 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound
digital
video file MPEG-4 Flash
Note Title from title frames.
Event Originally produced by PBS in 2002.
Summary Horrific images of wildfires sweeping California in 2010 made headlines around the world, but such scenes are an annual event, and armies of firefighters remain on hand to save threatened wilderness and communities. Fire Wars follows the men and women of the Arrowhead Hotshots as they tackle blazes during the long hot summer of 2000 -- one of the worst wildfire seasons on record, with more than six million acres destroyed. The season erupted with a supposedly controlled burn of excess fuel at Los Alamos, New Mexico. The fire spread, consuming hundreds of homes and threatening a nuclear facility. From their base in King's Canyon National Park, California, the Hotshots -- one of 65 specialist crews trained to deal with wildfires, which can be lethally unpredictable -- are seen in action at the Clear Creek fire that burned for almost two months and at one stage razed 20,000 acres in just three hours.
System Details Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subject Wildfires -- United States -- Prevention and control.
Wildfire fighters -- United States.
Fire Ecology.
Genre/Form Documentary films.
Added Author Wolfinger, Kirk, filmmaker.
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Music No. 1135827 Kanopy
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