The movie "Backdraft" was based loosely on the Hoff brothers. The New York fire department lowered a firefighter down a rope outside the building to where the trapped victim waited by the window.
In the early 1990s, a high-rise in Times Square caught fire. Yant said that one particularly daring rescue in the film is based on real life.
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He continues to get steady work as a TV actor and most recently starred on the Netflix series Northern Rescue. Arriving at the academy weeks ahead of the other actors, Phoenix charged into the program like a house afire, although it seemed, at first, uncertain whether the actor could really take the heat.īaltimore The most realistic parts of Ladder 49, the new film shot in Baltimore and starring John Travolta and Joaquin Phoenix, are the things that movie-goers will never see on-screen.īilly Baldwin has had an impressive career by any measure In 2005 Billy had a critically praised performance for his role in The Squid and the Whale alongside Laura Linney and Jeff Daniels. "I felt it was something I actually had to experience first-hand in order to accurately portray a firefighter, he says. The film then segues into the main flashback sequence, which starts off with its Inciting Event of Jack joining Ladder 49 as a rookie. Inciting Event: In the midst of an inferno, firefighter Jack is trapped when a floor collapses out from under him.
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