Video is coming down in 48 hours, and yet here i am watching it 2 years later in 2024....

After living in Oakland where I was raised, for 43 years, I moved to Hayward in December 1990. I'm about to watch this movie. Guess I moved just in time.

Just imagine what the people of Maui are going through. What a horrible tragedy 😢

I remember that fire. At the time this was as good as movies got to showing things like this

What a sad situation that turned out to be. I lost my former boss in that fire. Her named was Lucy manta and she use to own a AM PM mini market in West Oakland. I worked their in 1984,85

When I was a child I helped put out fires on our land. The whole community would gather to help put out the fires. We lost a shed one time but saved our barn and house

Baffling how some of those people are standing watching the fire destroy the houses & not trying to leave. Everyone reacts differently but first sign of fire & im gone ..

What a sad horrific catastrophe those poor people endured. Great movie... tyfs God bless you

I covered this story for my college newspaper. Now im in my 50s. Can't believe its been so long. And still wonder what caused it.

I lived about 20 minutes away from Oakland when this happened. I was 4 years old.

I've lived in a fire prone area in the Central Sierras near Bass Lake CA. Thankfully we have much better evacuation alert systems today than they did in the 1990s.

I hate that people can be so careless with their cigarettes and matches....the devastation is horrendous. A match, a cigarette, a candle, each and everyone HAS to be taken so seriously to make sure they are put out correctly, everytime.

I did deliveries in those hills in the 70s. Beautiful up there.

How devastating, any catastrophe is bad but I don’t know there’s something about fire. And isn’t it weird how everything can burn and then there’s one thing that survived or two things. I live in British Columbia. We are in the middle of a drought right now and have been for the last few years and we’ve had devastating forest fires, and there was a really bad one a couple years ago about an hour down the road that involved friends and neighbors. And as you drive through the area, you can see all the trees burned and then you can see partial trees that are burned on one side and there’s houses that survived and houses that burned it’s crazy. Such a good movie. So realistic, good acting thanks for sharing.

Gripping movie - thank you for posting this true story! The entire movie is about Decisions, Decisions!

Some of those people are so casual about getting out. Fire is so quick. About 4 years ago we had such a bad fire season in Australia. I think if we had it here I would be prepared to get out quick . We only have one road out of our area

First thing to get is the cat!

I had literally moved to Napa from Lake County just days before this. I remember standing at the window at 9:00 that Sunday morning, thinking it was strangely warm and still. I was like the Chief, completely unfamiliar with the Oakland region, and without benefit of maps or Google in those days. I remember being horrified but not necessarily surprised as the news played out later that day. It truly was a "perfect storm" of the worst conditions. I later met a cousin who lost his home in the fire. This movie was well done and illustrated the events more than anything I saw or heard about it then. Hard to believe it's been 32 years this month.

At 45:00. Living in Colorado, I'm reminded of the Marshall Fire and Waldo Canyon. Marshall was less than 2 miles South of me growing up. A bit too close to home even though I have lived in Ft. Collins for 22 years.

Fire is a wonderful thing, but it can also be a beast and destroy property and lives. This was a wonderful movie showing the dangers of fire and how communities can come together to help each other in times of need. I am not a firefighter, but I have been trained to fight fires. I fought my first one at the age of 9, by helping the fire brigade fight a grass fire that we won. It took a couple of hours to beat. I was not the only child helping; two of my mates were with me, and I believe we learned a lot about fires that day by helping put this so-called minor fire out. Being young, we of course did not look upon it as a minor fire as it was also close to houses. I have also fought a couple of house fires as well as bushfires and one on an aircraft carrier. All were won, I will add. I have a lot of respect for those who do this job on a daily basis.

I remember when this happened and was horrified at the time and remember praying for all of those people and the fire fighters. To see this now in 2023 reminds me of the stories several of my friends at church told me about the fire in Paradise CA. WE sent people from our Church in Oregon with a caravan of trucks containing all kinds of supplies, not once but several times. WE sent furniture, building supplies, appliances, clothing, food, water generators, first aid supplies, even brought RV's for people to live in. OUR missionary people helped to frame up houses after helping to clean out the burned out areas too. WE have had many more "wild fires" here in Oregon than we have ever had in the State's history. Also, Canada has suffered greatly too. However, we have had the same amount of lightening strikes now as when I was a kid, and yet not as many fires. So many of these fires today are being caused by humans carelessness with cigarettes, campfires, and yes, even illegal fireworks. There has been cases of pure arson. It has zero to do with climate change and everything to do with humankind becoming more wicked, deceitful and just plain selfish. I find that very, very sad. One of our worst fires that wiped out a town, a lake and reservoir are, including beautiful forest and campgrounds was started by ARSON. I find that to be very very sad indeed. Thanks for the film! It was very informative.

When Oakland was still halfway decent. Now it’s downright petrifying. In 1992 I was 3 years away from becoming a 911 dispatcher for 24 years. I cannot fathom working a wildfire. I worked for 3 agencies in 3 counties just outside of Chicago, and only experienced 1 brush fire from a controlled burn that became out of control. That was the worst, and hardest call I experienced only because I had nothing to work off of, and was all alone as the only fire dispatcher in the room. Forty three pieces of equipment, I shut down an expressway whose next exit was O’Hare Airport. Kudos to all of California’s Emergency Services Division…Forestry, Fire, Police, Dispatchers!!! Retired Illinois Dispatcher *836

❤ i couldn't imagine going thru that 😢. Not knowing if your family got taken away by the fire. God bless all u fire fighter's 🙏 . Franklin nh 🔥 1-12-24 .happy new year everyone ✨️ 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

Fantastic movie. Thank you. Awful awful devastation though. God Bless all affected ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

I love a good TV movie, and disaster movies too Cheers buddy 🙋‍♂️

I was living in Madera California. Ma lived there and a sister. Remember this tragedy Sorry for the victims. 😪🙏❤️💓God Bless

Seems a small thing but it broke my heart when they failed to put moms wheelchair in the back of the station wagon. 😪

So here I am watching as bushfire season is here in Australia

Very good movie and real it happened to places this year😢😢😢😢

Hopefully we learn that we have all we need with family and stop building bigger homes etc. Excellent movie to see the reality of fire outcomes

I had a friend who tried to retrieve some things from his parents house he rode his bike because the road was closed on the way down the hurricane force wind was blowing him back uphill into the fire he had to peddle downhill for his life

That movie is amazing that a community can work together after a fire storm to rebuild there lives that is beautiful graham oneill ps to the firemen and police thats the heroes well done to all i was driving a taxi in auckland new zealand in the 90 s that court fire i got out ok but the fire men and police were amazing

Such a devastating time for so many people. The value of working together in sure was experienced I'm sure. I lived through a flood and remember much of the feelings of community that came during it and with all the devastation after. That part would make for a good movie also. Everyone is in the same boat, rich or poor, it made no difference. It was very realistic. Thank you.

Great presentation thanks !!

As a Rural Fire Fighter in Queensland Australia, all I can say is the USA could use some of our instructors. I have instructed several wildland fire-fighters who have said our training packages are first rate. (Plus I wouldn't mind a trip to the US).

Enjoyed this great movie. Thank you.

The lady upset with the Chief about losing her house. Lady, you're lucky to be alive. Things can be replaced. Lives can't

How horribly tragic fire is. My friend lived in Oakland til he graduated high school. He was 21 when this fire occurred. He still had family in the area. 1.5 billion in damages. I wonder how much that would be today? Probably 100 times that at least. They do have a memorial park named after the fire. My family could have moved to Palo Alto in the 70s for my dad’s job. But my grandmother was sick and my mom was taking care of her so we stayed on the other coast. I think about how I would have been able to see the smoke from this fire from my parents house had we moved to Ca. I’m glad I wasn’t there to see it. I’ve only seen small wildfires up close here. Nothing even close to the magnitude of this fire. I feel for those who lost loved ones and their homes and businesses.

Sad to see people losing their homes

People get so careless and just don't care about dropping cigarette butts on the ground, May GOD help them realize that is just plain HATEFUL 😢!!!!

Thank you, it was a good movie.

Sad but very good movie.

EXCELLENT MOVIE 🎥 🍿 💕

Great Movie heroics of all the police and the fire stations is obvious in this movie!

Geordi! ❤

Lucky I stay at the place no bush fire , no earthquake, typhoon , no natural disaster

I think 🤔 there are lots of very green trees 🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄 no dry brush !!🎄🎄

former reading rainbow host LeVar Burton played fire chief Mather in the ABC TV movie firestorm 72 hours in oakland.

I was born and raised in Oakland, CA this was after our major earthquake October 17, 1989. We lived in West Oakland, and When this all happened I began having an allergy attack so bad I gave myself an Concussion I sneezed really hard in the bathroom and slammed my head into the marble sink. My doctor said I couldn't go out in that Air because it was going to kill Me. Someone got me my allergy med's and brought them to our house; and this dude people knew as The Mountain Man he brought a can of straight up Coke Cola and said the Cola formal can help with my breathing. I thought it was odd till I saw the Michael J. Fox movie Doc Hollywood he was about too do routine surgery on a kid and when the town main doctor arrived he popped open a can of coke cola for the kids Asthma attack. I guess Mountain man wasn't wrong. The most poignant thing other than my concussion having too stay home from school because it still wasn't safe Berkeley, CA. was having it's Firestorm along with ours at the same time and of course A famous Oakland Hotel in that area the Fire burned all around the Hotel but, the hotel itself never burned down. During this Fire however it jumped The Freeway which then freaked a lot of people out. I had once attended a school in that area for 3 year's before this Fire a serious situation came up with the school an so I transferred too another school. Coincidentally my new school, I could look up at a specific road actually that took people to that old school of mine. Going back too School after the Fire it was all hazy and the road couldn't be seen from my position. I just marveled if I hadn't transferred what might have happened but, hey after The Big Quake October 17, 1989 my family lived 5 minutes away from The Cypress Freeway that collapsed and we had just gotten off of it right before the Earthquake. An Yes just like the woman said here in the movie my cat went crazy too before The Big Quake Hit. Since my allergies were everywhere my cousins had too take my cat mouthpiece who luckily lived North Oakland going towards Berkeley.

I shouldnt have watched this as it reminds me of our bush fires in Australia. They are truly frightening and I remember seeing these fires on our TV. Condolences to those who lost loved ones or even neighbours. Homes and stuff can be replaced but family or friend loss is horrific

One of the many reasons Why I would never live in Calif.

I did forget one thing the Firestorm occurred in October wow same month as The Earthquake. Sorry Fire did jump the Freeway and got to another section in the Oakland, Hill's. An yep it traveled into Berkeley Hills and other place's in Oakland it never reached West, Oakland the Fire but, The Smoke and Ash sure Did.

Being from that area my whole life & NEVER experiencing an environmental trauma, THIS tragedy was as if a whole area was incinerated from a bomb explosion. I’ll never forget.

I remember the huge hunks of fureled ashen eucalyptus bark that traveled all the way over bay into San Francisco.

2 years later, your pirated movie is still available. I have to give you credit for your creative click bait though.

I lived near the area at the time of the fire. Thankfully, not in the area directly involved.

This is a really good film to watch 😢😮

LeVar Burton has brought so much needed goodness into the world

I get so irritated with people that want to grab dumb things before leaving

😢😢😢 so heartbreaking to watch. That poor people I am lost for words. Must have been beyond terrifying. 😢😢😢

not a bad movie, but some of the acting, good god, where do they find these people

Her in Australia, this year is predicted to have so many more fires…praying for all. 🇦🇺

Thank You!!

A great depiction of that devestating fire. Will be sad to see this movie go, Ive enjoyed watching it a few times. Thanks so much for posting it.

Forst 🔥 are bad exspley when it takes out homes and people we must be careful i feelt sorry those who lost everything i pary that we dont have to go through a bad fire sesion😢

This fire could be compared to Ash Wednesday 1983,Black Tuesday 2005,Black Saturday 2009 and Black Summer 2019/2020 in terms of property loss, area burnt and injuries only fire that could eclipse the Oakland fire with lives lost is Black Saturday when 173 lives were claimed As an undergraduate in emergency management I know sooner rather than later special conditions conducive to these kinds of fires will happen again and that I'll be right on the front lines either helping save lives or deciding where resources go

This was a fantastic movie. 🙂⚘️.

Minnesota here. No hurricanes, earthquakes, forest fires, volcanoes. Just the occasional tornado and blizzards galore

Butterfly in the sky I can go twice as high.....sorry got reading rainbow iny head now.

I was caught in a forest fire in 1976 new forest fire im terrified of fire 😢

Just build houses out of concrete and clay tile roofs and brush management

Love this movie it had my heart racing ❤

I was 23yrs old when it happened, see back then people had values. Everyone knew their neighbors and everyone in town knew everybody. It was devastating. Nature can be beautiful and it can be deadly. Wind is fires fuel. Thats now it jumps from one side of the road to the other. Evacuation is key

It's so sad to look at that footage. Mother Nature isn't very kind at times. God bless 🙏

firestorms great natura disaster 1993 the house was damage and car burning in oakland

A tiny tree drops on his hood, and he abandons his car without an effort to break free! What a lousy script!

Good movie, but a sad time.

I survived it

“Coming down in 48 hours” … FOR OVER TWO YEARS! Boy, do I smell a lot of nearby cow pies. 🐄💩 😂

Me lembro deste filme desde pequeno pena que não tem a versão em português

Great

Australia every summer

and yet these fires continue around the globe and the sad part is most are lit deliberately. here in Australia these fires just spike up in summer

From the notes: "... destroying countless homes and communities. Hope you guys enjoy this!!" And, at the end credits, I snickered that they named the 'angry woman'. HA! Her name should have been Karen.

Thank you for this

I remember the Rodeo Chuski fire in Show low and that was devesting also a long with the fire in Yarnell that was also dangerous because lives were also lost😢

Why would the dad have them leave their stuff behind? I don’t care if you’re coming back. It’s not like they had so much stuff that there wouldn’t be room.

In every single one of these disaster films there has to be that one stupid person

It just baffles me how fire cheif was not able to connect with his wife and kids ..yet he remained loyal to the suffering citizens and on his job ..yet not knowing if his wife and kids were alive😒

and still they rebuilt timber houses with timber frames and wood surrounds! I'll never understand that with the Americans! Build a slightly smaller house using 'Light Gauge Steel Frame' on a concrete base, with MgO (or other fireproof) panelling and you'll have yourself a house which will stand while all other burn.

And what people dont often think about is that these fires are increasing worldwide and another feedback loop is happening, the more fires the more CO2 goes into atmosphere which only feeds back into more fires. In australia we are already into fire threats well before time and that window between sessional fire threats is now sept thru to potentially april 7 months....and we too often forget the wildlife lost that impact upon local ecosystems. rarely do we give that much attention. we lost millions of animal in our last major fires.

They sing the same old song and dance to this day! Drought and wind.

Friends lost their houses but most had insurance - for those that lost loved ones, condolences....then came the Loma Prieta earthquake!! (Oh, that was before, sorry!) But I've personally witnessed campfres in forested areas that lit roots which smoldered underground invisibly and then flared into open flame a few yards away over 24 hours later.....

I recommend!!! This movie to everyone! It was the best movie !! Extremely!! Life's are soo precious!! Everything else can be replace!! Thank you!!!

Fires , floods , tornadoes , earthquakes , blizzards and hurricanes are all scary. I live in a area of the country that gets a lot of rain so we don’t have much worries about fire like this. But , seems all areas have some kind of natural disasters. Tornadoes and flooding in my area are the biggest concerns.

Good movie

It takes a bit of intelligence. Do you know to cover your face with your T-shirt?…. It be wise to takeoff your T-shirt and find water to breathe into it. Good grief there, inhaling all the smoke without thinking with their head.

I don't really remember anything about the fire😮

I'm sorry for everyone that experienced losses from that fire!💔 I have a few complaints about the movie though. Why weren't the firefighters aiming at the base of the flames!!? I thought that was the first thing they're taught in training! What really bothers me is that this movie was not made by CGI, meaning they really set (controlled) fire to all those trees, destroying not only the trees, but also all the wildlife that makes those trees their homes, and why? Just so they could make a movie!😡 Anyway, rant over. Thanks for the upload.❤

Wow, some of these characters are dumb 😳