Facing the Fire

While Birmingham has its Gay Pride Parade under heavy security crews are called to an explosive incident only a few miles from the city center In West Bromwich the crew deals with everything from a drugs den fire to animal rescues At night the Technical Rescue Unit is called out a car that has crashed into a sleeping familys living room putting the whole house at risk of collapse

Londons Grenfell apartment building fire shocked the firefighting community Two weeks later firefighters tackled another highrise blaze in central Birmingham Elsewhere in the city residents of other apartment blocks are assured that the cladding of their building wont go up in flames and Highgate Red Watch are called to save a man whose leg is trapped by a doubledecker bus

Bloxwich firefighters find themselves in a tense standoff with a gang burning copper cables Meanwhile in Coventry a commuter bus plows into the front of a house at a busy roundabout during rush hour Northfield Blue Watch race to a crash site where two cars have been involved in a highspeed collision And Arley the Staffie is saved by Highgate Red Watch

Firefighters from Highgate Red Watch are mobilized to a blazing house with a threeyearold reportedly trapped inside While still recovering from their exertions in the house fire Joe and George of Highgate Red give up some off duty time to hone their car crash rescue skills Red Crew Commander Joe Poynton faces a heartstopping moment when his sisters car is flipped onto its roof

An unexploded World War 2 bomb brings Birminghams busy motorway network to a halt Firefighters race to rescue tenants that they fear are trapped by a massive house blaze Every second counts as the raging fire looks like it will engulf the property Trapped and all alone a twoyear old toddler locked in a second floor bedroom is rescued by a fearless crew from Northfield Fire station

In this episode we witness 999 dispatchers at work assisting a terrified family with young children trapped by fire on the second floor of their home Meanwhile Northfields Blue Watch confront a lethal buildup of smoke that can turn into an explosive back draft and firefighters suspect arson at a fire at an indoor market

Hay Mills Green Watch are called to rescue a young mother trapped in the wreckage of her car Highgate Blue Watch are called to a vicious electrical manhole fire that threatens the cable and pipes beneath a busy road They also rescue an upset toddler whos trapped herself in a bathroom and they visit a local soup kitchen to engage with Birminghams homeless

The fire crew from Sheldon station attack a fierce house blaze that threatens to collapse on them Fire investigation dogs sniff out the suspect of an industrial unit fire Sheldon White Watch crew tackle an apartment blaze that destroys an entire bedroom in under an hour Meanwhile Blue Watch get out their cutting gear to rescue an injured man trapped in a car crashed into a lamppost

West Midlands Fire Service extinguish up to 10000 fires a year This special episode goes back into the fire and looks at some of the most incredible moments captured by firefighters themselves across the series using heatresistant helmet cameras

Tech Rescue is a team of highly trained specialist firefighters sent to find people caught up in extreme events such as collapsed buildings floods people trapped at heights and in mine shafts or tunnels In this episode they find themselves mobilized to multivehicle fire in a car park and drawn into a possible murder investigation when they search a canal for a body reported by a passerby

Birmingham firefighters are tested to the limit to rescue a man impaled on a threemeter long metal bar At midnight on a Saturday evening a huge recycling plant full of toxic plastic goes up in flames spewing poisonous smoke across peoples homes and closing a railway nearby And Highgate White are called to a domestic blaze shockingly started by a sevenyearold child

Aston Red Watch race to a blaze in a terraced family home where a member of the household may still be trapped inside Elsewhere in the city Alongside fighting fires and dealing with car crashes West Midlands fire crews support their local communities in a variety of ways And a fire service boxing team takes on some colleagues from New York City

Northfield Blue Watch are on the scene after a mini cab mounts the curb and smashes into a tree Bloxwich White Watch are called to an unusual domestic accident when Betty an elderly lady takes a tumble and traps her foot behind a radiator Over in Oldbury White Watch Commander Adam Joyce leads his crew into the fire when arson rips into a derelict pub

Meet the skilled specialist operators of West Mids Technical Rescue Unit responsible for some of the trickier and more demanding jobs in the fire brigade In this episode watch the Tech Rescue team face a sheer 100foot drop to rescue a very big dog from the bottom of a ravine

A single faulty battery has sparked a factory fire of deadly explosions The scene is like a war zone as crews face the fire and risks from battery acid and toxic chemicals flying through the air This year the WMFS are taking on 30 new recruits — out of 3000 applicants — and putting them through training school to see if they have the right stuff to be firefighters of the future

Firefighters from Walsall fire station are called to a potentially lethal lorry fire on the M6 one of Britains busiest motor ways With the fire growing the crew close lanes and search for the driver Sheldon Blue Watch make a shocking discovery at a house fire An offduty firefighter is the first on the scene when a ceiling collapses at a primary school prom

Highgate Red help a baby suffering from suspected smoke inhalation as they put out a shed fire that has started in mysterious circumstances A body is reported floating in the canal and firefighters along with other emergency services have the grim task of recovering the corpse After eight weeks of intensive training the new recruits are one assignment away from graduation

West Midlands Fire Service respond to more than 24000 emergency callouts a year This special episode looks back at some of the most courageous callouts which the West Midlands Fire Service have filmed themselves Eighty firefighters battle gas leaks and exploding electric cables as they tackle a huge factory fire