Al Simmons is seen shooting a major
blower on Highway 18. Photo by Troy Whitman

 

 

Alan Simmons Productions - Firestorm Videos

 
FIRE SHOWIN with the BFD - Buffalo's Bravest

FIRE SHOWIN' with the BFD "Buffalo's Bravest"

70 minute presentation of twelve fires with the Buffalo, New York Fire Department features exclusive first due action as arriving companies go to work. You are there as the first ladder companies commence search, rescue, and ventilation. Follow the first hose lines as they go into operation. Excellent for use as a training aid in size up, and beginning tactics and strategy. Filmed in HD in January 2009, and July 2006, 2009.

View the 8 minute trailer featuring selected scenes from FIRE SHOWIN' with the BFD "Buffalo's Bravest"...



Order the full 70 minute version of Fire Showin' today! DVD Price - $24.95 ea.    


 
Billy Blue Hair - Why Are Fire Trucks Red?

Billy Blue Hair - Why Are Fire Trucks Red?

from Kayo Media

In this episode, Billy Blue Hair loses his dog Doogie while playing fetch. As Billy searches for Doogie within the live-action video, Billy discovers Fire Station 25 where he learns fun and quirky facts about fire stations, fire engines, ladders, turnout suits, hydrants and how to safely battle a fire. "Why do fire stations have a pole?", "Why are fire hydrants different colors?", and "Why are fire trucks red?" are just a few of the many things your child will learn in this wonderful DVD. Suitable for ages 3 and up...

"Lots of interesting information is presented in an attention-grabbing manner that will have children clamoring to watch the film again and again"
    - School Library Journal, Jan 2010

Runtime: 30 minutes.     DVD Price - $14.95 ea.    


 
Firestorm 2009 by Alan Simmons

Firestorm 2009 - Volumes 1 & 2

Volume 1... This volume covers the "Jesusita Fire" in Santa Barbara, CA and the "Guiberson Fire" in Fillmore, CA. The Jesusita Fire exhibiting extreme fire behavior driven by 70 mph Sundowner winds destroyed 160 structures and over 8000 acres. The air show provided fantastic close up action of tanker ops. The Guiberson Fire was the only notable wind driven fire of the fall season destroying one structure and 17,000 acres providing good air show and hand crew action.
Running Time: 54 minutes.

Volume 2... This volume covers the "La Brea Fire" in the Los Padres Nat. Forest and the "Sheep Fire" in San Bernardino County, CA. The La Brea Fire for video purposes was mostly an air show. It burned 90,000 acres and provided excellent close action of P-3's, P-2's CAL FIRE S-2's and the Martin Mars. The Sheep Fire in Lone Pine Cyn. exhibited extreme fire behavior destroying three structures and 8000 acres while threatening the town of Wrightwood. Ground, air, and dozer ops are featured along with accompanying radio traffic.
Running Time: 60 minutes.

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Station Fire August 2009 by Alan Simmons

Station Fire - August 2009

The Station Fire which started in the Angeles National Forest on August 26th, 2009 during triple digit temperatures and single digit humidities grew to be the largest wildland fire in Los Angeles County history and the tenth largest in the state of California. The arson caused fire claimed the lives of two firefighters, destroyed 89 residences, 22 commercial buildings, and 94 outbuildings. The fuel and terrain driven fire exhibited very extreme fire behavior leading to the destruction of 160,577 acres, or over 250 square miles.

Volume 1: (Running Time: 55 minutes)
Station Fire Days 1, 2 and 3

Volume 2: (Running Time: 68 minutes)
Station Fire Days 4, 5, 6 and 7. Memorial Ceremony.

View the 6 minute trailer featuring selected scenes from the Station Fire DVD's...



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November Firestorm 2008 by Alan Simmons

November Firestorm 2008

This video comprised of three wind driven wildland fires in November 2008 displays extreme fire behavior made possible by fuels parched by years of drought, varied and steep terrain, and strong off shore winds. When these conditions come together the overwhelming scenarios presented in this video are created producing unstoppable firestorms.

Featured Fire Incidents:
TEA FIRE (Montecito) 223 Structures damaged or destroyed
SAYRE FIRE 805 Structures damaged or destroyed
FREEWAY COMPLEX 361 Structures damaged or destroyed.
Running Time: 83 minutes.

NOW AVAILABLE - November Firestorm 2008 - $29.95 ea. on DVD    

Special Purchase Pricing Now available on our 2008 Firestorm DVD Sets
  1. November & October Firestorm 2008 - Purchase both DVD's together for only $49.95 (Save $10.00)
  2. November & October Firestorm 2008 plus Wildland Fire 2008 Vols 1 & 2 for only $84.95 (Save $15.00 on this set of 4 DVD's)
SPECIAL PURCHASE PRICING - 2008 Firestorm DVD's from - $49.95 set.

   


 
October Firestorm 2008 by Alan Simmons

October Firestorm 2008

This video features the first wind driven fires of the 2008 fall season in Southern California. Two of these fires occur on the same day and in close proximity to one another. Driven by Santa Ana winds through drought conditioned fuels, these fires spread across 19,627 acres damaging or destroying 141 structures including 75 residences. Air operations (fixed wing and rotor wing) are featured at all three fires including ops at the fill sites.
Running Time: 90 minutes.

Featured Fire Incidents:
MAREK FIRE (Los Angeles County, Los Angeles City, Angeles National Forest) 4,824 acres, 52 structures damaged or destroyed including 49 residences.
SENSON FIRE (Los Angeles County, Los Angeles City, Ventura County) 14,703 acres, 89 structures damaged or destroyed including 26 residences.
SEPULVEDA FIRE (Los Angeles City) 100 acres, no structures lost.

NOW AVAILABLE - October Firestorm 2008 - $29.95 ea. on DVD    


 
Wildland Fire 2008 by Alan Simmons

Wildland Fire 2008

This two volume video features CAL FIRE and the United States Forest Service in action at wildland fire incidents throughout various locations in California. There are also two structure fires (not related to wildland in the cities of Sonora and Twain Harte) in the jurisdiction of the Tuolumne Calaveras CAL FIRE unit. Numerous scenes depicting EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR relate to the severe drought conditions that prevail throughout California. There is excellent coverage of air operations, both fixed wing and rotary at all wildland fires and ground operations at Columbia, Paso Robles, and Chester Air Attack bases. Radio traffic accompanies most incidents including air ops.

Featured Fire Incidents: Volume 1 Telegraph Fire, MMU, French Flat Fire, TCU, Sonora Structure Fire, Gap Fire, LPF

Featured Fire Incidents: Volume 2 River Fire, TCU, Grass Valley Fire, BDF, Twain Harte Structure Fire, Butler 2 Fire, BDF, Moonlight Fire, PNF, Butte Lightning Complex, BTU

NOW AVAILABLE - Wildland Fire 2008 Vols. 1, 2 - $29.95 ea. on DVD
Order each volume individually or save $9.95 by ordering the two volumes together - Only $49.95 set!
   
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Interface Firefighting Training Series

NOW AVAILABLE! - Interface Firefighting Training Series
Narration and Instruction By
J.P. Harris - LACoFD Retired & Tony Duprey - USFS Retired


This fast paced wildland training video is designed to keep YOU SAFE during wildland fire operations. It features dynamic fire scenes in brush and timber combined with expert narrartive training to deliver the necessary information that everyone operating at wildland incidents needs to know to perform their jobs safely. This Interface Training Series is ideal for annual refresher courses and is intended for all agencies, Federal, State, Local, Volunteer, Contract, and Support personnel. Information gained from this training series may save YOUR LIFE.
Total time: Four hours divided into a three DVD volume set.


Order the 3 Volume Set now!

Price: $79.95 for the three volume set.
Shipping and Taxes extra (Tax will be added for shipment to addresses within California).

Quantity discounts available on purchases of 10 or more copies and will be offered based on an indivdual basis. To receive a quantity discount, you must contact Alan Simmons prior to ordering online.
Contact Alan Simmons via email or call toll free at 800-549-3457 for further information.
This is a copywrited production.
 
Now available on DVD and VHS!

Captain Alan Simmons has been a Southern California firefighter for over 30 years. He has been a disaster photo/videographer equally as long. Traveling with fire companies from coast to coast, he has compiled the most exciting footage imaginable. His knowledge of wildland fires and the behavior of numerous kinds of devastation is fascinating, as well as educational, to all.

All Videos Now Available on DVD Only!

We are pleased to make all our new releases available in DVD format. We've also re-created all of our previous releases on DVD and will no longer be releasing any further versions on VHS. We invite you to return often to watch for more DVD releases in the near future with future editions being shot in HD-DVD.


RECENT RELEASES . . . . All Titles now available on DVD only!

 
LOS ANGELES BURNING, Fires of the 1992 Riot

This collector's edition is a must for fire and history buffs.

...brought back by popular demand for the fifteenth anniversary of this historical event, re-edited and digitally mastered. Video opens with police action that escalates into violence resulting in hundreds of stucture fires during three days of chaos resulting in 60 deaths and 800 hundred million in damage. 82 minutes.
Order Your Collector's Copy Today! - $29.95 on DVD      

   
 
View some hot clips from Firestorm 2003 Vol's 1 & 2:

1. CDF Firefighters try to contain several homes on fire. (Vol. 1)
2. Firefighters battle an entire neighborhood on fire. (Vol. 1)

 

Alan Simmons shoots a wall of fire
during the October 2003 California Firestorms.
Photo by Gene Blevins/LA Daily News/CFPA/2003
Alan Simmons shoots a wall of fire during the 2003 California Wildfires.
Photo by Gene Blevins/LA Daily News/CFPA/2003

 
Also Available

Motivational Series Videos

This series of Videos includes all the Show Opening tapes done for Firehouse Expo and Firehouse World. This dramatic series of videos are excellent for beginning a class session or seminar for motivating the attendees toward the subject matter of fire fighting.

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We now have more than 30 titles to choose from including 6 volumes from our "East Meets West" series, plus additional new volumes from our LAFD Multiple Alarms and our Firestorm Wildland Fires series. To view the full list with descriptions, please Click Here!

We invite you to come back often as many of our original titles will soon be available on DVD also.

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