Fuddland

“Firefighters cool movie project”:

A group of US and Canadian firefighters have stopped a film being made about an inferno which killed six firefighters in Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1999.

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Frank Raffa, president of the Worcester Firefighters Local 1009 union, said his concern was that the families and their children would have to relive the tragedy if the film was made, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

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The film was due to star Ed Harris and Woody Harrelson and was based on Sean Flynn’s book, 3000 Degrees: The True Story of a Deadly Fire and the Men Who Fought It.

[My emphasis.]

Was the Esquire feature similarly frowned-upon? It appears not, as a lot of people involved co-operated:

[It] includes interviews with family members and many of those on the scene at the tragedy, as well as adding interactivity with an online Flash multimedia presentation of the fire, photos and much more.

An online Flash multimedia presentation of the fire — entitled “The Perfect Fire” of all things. What difference does it make if it’s a book, a magazine feature or a film?