Airdate: Saturday January 7, 1978
Writers: W. Preston Wood II, revisions by Robert A.
Cinder
Director: Georg Fenady
LACoFD Technical Advisor: (unknown)
Guest Cast: Linda Gray, Brendan Boone, John Furey,
Anne Lockhart, John DeLancie, William Bryant, Curtis Credel, Erik Washington,
Lyndel Stuart, William Bronder, Vice Howard, Joseph Della Sorte, Sidney Clute,
Robert Karnes, Steven Marlo, Philip Baker Hall, T. Miratti, Buck Young
Story: A high-rise office building erupts into
flames, trapping people. A careless worker sparks an explosive fire in a
high-rise building. Station 110 leads a full alarm response, assisted by Squad
51. A triage team from Rampart Hospital led by Dr. Brackett, sets up a makeshift
ER in a nearby garage. Several workmen and two women, including a fiancée of a
LA County Fire Department paramedic remain trapped on the 16th floor. A Coast
Guard helicopter assists in rooftop evacuation; Dixie and Dr. Early take charge
of the patients transported to Rampart. A paramedic is injured attempting a
rescue, while Gage and DeSoto extricate themselves from a broken elevator. An
explosion on the 21st floor injures a fire captain, necessitating a dangerous
rescue down an elevator shaft.
Goofs: (1) The paramedic who rode Engine 110 that day was
chewing gum in the elevator? YOU DON'T DO THAT AT ALL !!! IT IS VERY
UNPROFESSIONAL AND WOULD INTERFERE WITH SCBA!!!!!!!! (2) If you look close on some of the burning walls as the firefighters spray
water on it, you can't help but notice the white streaks from the flammable liquid they
squirted on the walls to make them burn intensely to begin with. In actually if they fire
department found that kind of streaking at the scene of a fire, that would be a clear cut
case of arson beyond the shadow of a doubt.
