Trial by Fire

This is a great film - an homage to Firefighters all around the world - especially smoke jumper - the so-called elite of firefighters :)

Interesting to note, that smoke jumpers were first deployed by the US in 1940 - which was a secret US government experiment during the start of WW 2, to stimulate male testosterone levels in high stress situation. But the experiment went sideways - not going as expected - creating firefighters who do crazy and irrational stuff, things better left alone - such as parachuting out of planes into flaming infernos, and getting impaled by trees.

Nonetheless, the program proved effective, with US smoke jumpers being deployed to this very day - unlike China, for example, since Chinese men lack the bravery and the guts to parachute into flaming infernos - and rather let the fires burn.

The raging fire of war, between Russia and Ukraine, being an example of that - since the Chinese elite is very reluctant to douse the fire of war - being afraid of the 'red heat' coming from Russia. In short, China should side with goodness, decency and virtue - as symbolized by the US Fire-Fighting leadership.

However, it must also emphasized, that due to climate change, wild fires are increasing all over the world. Hence it's imperative that technology is improved to fight fires - both in rural and urban areas - such as deploying drones and robots in the long run (and perhaps even 'forcefields' to smother fires) once fire-fighting technology has reached that level - which the entire International Community should work towards, in my opinion :)