The city’s hopes for a glitzy benefit premiere of Backdraft, Universal Pictures’ $40 million summer picture about Chicago fire fighters, appear to be going up in flames. With $20 million of its ...

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Donald S. Rimgale was a Chicago firefighter and fire investigator who inspired the character played by Robert De Niro in “Backdraft,” the 1991 movie set and filmed in Chicago. “He was really just ...

CHICAGO - Several firefighters have been taken to hospitals with injuries that are not life-threatening after a “flashover” erupted during a house fire causing a mayday emergency call Saturday ...

A neighbor’s video catches a backdraft engulfing Chicago firefighters at 4851 S. Paulina St. It was one of those small fires that firefighters face every day. But even the smallest blaze can turn on ...

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CHICAGO, March 26 (UPI) -- An infamous alleged serial arsonist in Chicago on which the 1991 movie "Backdraft" was based has died, Chicago fire officials said. He was 67. Albert Zenner, known widely to ...

A Hinsdale mansion that has been owned by a railroad executive and a prominent publisher and, in the movie “Backdraft,” a corrupt Chicago Alderman, is for sale. Built in 1890, the home, seven bedrooms ...

What with all the fires devouring so many thousands of acres of forest land, along with the cities they surround, it’s only natural that firefighters should attract our attention. So many movies and ...