Firestorm

Howie Long leads the team in this actioner about firefighters who parachute into a burning forest to help capture bad guys., In this actioner, an escaped killer flees into the forest during a raging fire…just as a heroic fireman (Howie Long) parachutes in to put out the blaze. It’s a race against time as the killer searches for buried loot while the firemen try to find him before the flames engulf them. William Forsythe, Scott Glenn, Suzy Amis., Action adventure. When an imprisoned sociopath deliberately starts a fire in order to aid a breakout, he escapes into the burning forest with a female hostage. A team of heroic firefighters must then race against time to rescue the woman before the deadly firestorm consumes the forest and everything in it., Red-hot action adventure starring American hunk Howie Long as Jesse Graves, the captain of an elite team of ‘smoke jumpers’, daredevil firefighters who parachute into blazing forests to combat the inferno. When imprisoned sociopath ‘Earl’ Shaye deliberately starts a fire in order to aid a breakout, he escapes into the burning forest, taking a pretty ornithologist hostage along the way. When Graves discovers what has happened, he faces a race against time to rescue the woman before the deadly firestorm consumes the forest and everyone in it., When an imprisoned sociopath deliberately starts a fire in order to aid a breakout, he escapes into the burning forest with a female hostage. A team of heroic firefighters must then race against time to rescue the woman before the deadly firestorm consumes the forest and everything in it., This Chris Soth screenplay is directed by Dean Semler, the Oscar-winning Dances With Wolves cinematographer who also did cinematography for Waterworld and Last Action Hero. The film’s action hero is Howie Long (Broken Arrow), Fox Sports commentator and former NFL star. Wyoming firefighter Jesse Graves (Long) leads a team of smoke-jumpers who parachute into forest fires. Inside a penitentiary, killer Earl Shaye (William Forsythe) devises an escape plan in order to recover a hidden $37 million. He murders a fellow inmate and takes his place in a group of convicts headed out to fight a forest fire. They make an escape, pose as visiting Canadian firefighters, and are ready to look for the loot when retired firefighter Wynt (Scott Glenn) discovers the escape. Shaye’s group rescues trapped ornithologist Jennifer (Suzy Amis, Titanic’s Lizzy Calvert). Jesse parachutes in, but time is running out, since the original fire and the backfire will soon combine to create a firestorm. Filmed on location in British Columbia with fire-enhancement special effects by Chris Corbould. Not to be confused with Firestorm: 2024 A.D. (1996) or Firestorm: 72 Hours in Oakland (1993).