A firefighter stepped into a backdraft on Christmas day in Louisiana. The St. John Volunteer Fire Department was called to a home with smoke coming from behind a fireplace. Two firefighters went to ...

Brian McCaffrey (William Baldwin) steps into his first day as a firefighter, walking the same halls his father once did, ...

Kurt Russell's Stephen yells orders during a fire in Backdraft - Universal Pictures In Ron Howard's "Backdraft," Chicago Fire Department firefighters (and siblings) Stephen (Kurt Russell) and Brian ...

At a somber afternoon news conference Wednesday, Buffalo Fire Commissioner William Renaldo delivered the news that many feared to learn and no one wanted to hear.