"[We] just never knew when the fire was going to get away from us," recalls the director, who says the cast and crew bonded over working with live fire on the 1991 film and reveals Robert De Niro's ...

Four firefighters were burned in a backdraft that erupted during a blaze Sunday afternoon at a West Side residential building. The fire, in the 4900 block of West Potomac Avenue in the city’s Austin ...

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Donald S. Rimgale was a Chicago firefighter and fire investigator who inspired the character played by Robert De Niro in “Backdraft,” the 1991 movie set and filmed in Chicago. “He was really just ...

Backdraft is the Top Gun of firefighting. And more. With Ron Howard directing, Backdraft is a densely textured story as concerned with sibling rivalry and political chicanery as it is with arson and ...

Greg Gorbett spends unmeasured hours building scale-model rooms, complete with furniture and fixtures. He then judiciously stacks wood cribbing inside and burns his creations. More often than not, he ...

TEXARKANA, Ark. -- Two Arkansas fire fighters were caught in a backdraft explosion while containing a house fire in Texarkana. Officials say the fire started around 10p.m. Wednesday. When the ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Firefighters think a backdraft may have been the explosive sound heard when a fire broke out a Regina home Thursday. A phenomenon ...