Prisoners of Fire

Prisoners of Fire

2025•1h 25m

DocumentaryDrama

June 26,1990, the Dude Fire rages across Zane Gray country in the towering ponderosa forests below the Mogollon Rim in Central Arizona, killing five prison crew members and a female supervisor on her first fire. Follow along with the survivors and firefighters as they share their experience as inmate firefighters and their harrowing story of courage, loss and redemption.

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Into The Black Productions

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EN

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