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Tangentially related and recommended. Werner Herzog's film that also features longer sections on the fire fighting efforts on the oil fields.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lessons_of_Darkness



For lighter viewing there is Sorcerer (1977) [0] with Roy Scheider.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorcerer_(film)


Great Tangerine Dream soundtrack too.


firefighter and tangerine dream fan, eh? we should cross paths ...


Pretty sure I'm just down the road from you too.


north-central NM ?


yep


Santa Fe County, eastern region, here.


Sent you some email. Might have gone to spam.


Not sure I'd call that lighter viewing, but it's a truly excellent movie.


Video is hosted on archive.org https://archive.org/details/lessons-of-darkness-1992


Someone just recommended this to me the other day!

I must also recommend the recently-deceased legend Sebastiao Salgado's photos from Kuwait oil fires.

https://publicdelivery.org/sebastiao-salgado-kuwait/


https://m.imdb.com/title/tt3674140/

I watched this movie on cinema a decade ago. Highly recommended.


It is, indeed, a tremendous documentary. He's one of my greatest inspirations.




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