Reporter Trapped: Story Catches Fire
2/19/202645 min
A TV news reporter gets trapped right in the middle of his own incendiary story. Rob Roth is following up on a small wildfire in the forested hills surrounding Oakland, California - a blaze which firefighters got under control the day before. With his wife due to give birth, Rob is hoping that today of all days he can get home on time. But this routine assignment veers wildly off script. When the winds suddenly change, Rob and his colleague will find themselves stuck - camera still rolling - in a reignited inferno…
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[wind blowing] It's late morning on Sunday, October the 20th, 1991, in the San Francisco Bay Area of California. Just a couple of hours earlier, the sun shone against a dazzling, cloudless stretch of azure sky. Now, day seems to have morphed into night. The brilliant blue expanse subsumed beneath a suffocating shroud of harsh, dense smoke. Ash and smoldering embers swirl through the darkened air, carried along by erratic gusts of hot, dry wind from the nearby Diablo mountain range. [siren blaring] In Oakland, just across the bay from San Francisco, everything seems baked in an eerie orange glow. Wailing sirens fill the city as emergency vehicles race along winding roads,