Dispatches from the fire frontline
TV PICK OF THE WEEK
Yorkshire Firefighters
This four-part series takes audiences on to the frontline with the men and women keeping their communities safe during the pandemic. It’s a rare chance to go behind the scenes with this crew of West Yorkshire firefighters.
Filmed using the latest technology, viewers will be brought closer than ever before to real-life emergencies, seeing inside burning buildings and getting to the heart of the action.
West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service has 900 firefighters, with a diverse range of personnel dedicated to serving a population of more than two million people – often in remote, highly dangerous and life-threatening situations.
Each episode shows the men and women behind the visors as they help communities during last winter, in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.
From bringing under control one of the biggest fires seen in Bradford in decades, to helping vulnerable people at home, expect drama, jeopardy, hair-raising moments and firefighters working day and night to be the best at what they do – with plenty of Yorkshire humour along the way too.
The first episode charts the run-up to Bonfire Night and crews across some of
West Yorkshire’s 40 stations are wondering how lockdown – and the banning of organised bonfires – will affect their normally busy workload.
They soon find out, as they are called out to a post box fire and reports of a firework being pushed through the letterbox of a house in Leeds, where a terrified mother and young daughter are inside.
This series is a reminder, not that we should need one, of how important our emergency services are.