Agency:.Produced by the NFB for the Canadian Forestry Service of Environment Canada.

Director, Michael Scott ; producer, George Pearson ; photography, David De Volpi ; sound, Michel Hazel ; editing, Robert Fortier ; sound editing, Les Halman ; re-recording, George Croll, Ted Haley.

Recorded 1971.

Forest fire in mountainous British Columbia, as experienced by the men who must try to quench it from the air and at close quarters on the ground. Over half of fire outbreaks occur through carelessness, and this film affords a close, vivid view of the result: a whole mountainside turned into a searing, crackling holocaust until nothing remains but gray, desolate waste--mute reproach to all who travel or work in the forests.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Bronze Ear, 1972 Bronze Medal, 1979

Description based on online resource; title from title screen (National Film Board of Canada, viewed 2023-08-10).