The ancient Australian landscape is home to one of the most dangerous killers on earth – bushfire. A small spark, caused by lightning or a careless human, can turn into a raging inferno in minutes. Left unchecked, it destroys everything in its path, leaving nothing but tragedy and a barren, charred landscape in its wake.
In Australia over 800 people have died from bushfires over the past few decades. Thousands of homes have been reduced to ash and millions of animals destroyed. Billions of dollars of damage have been inflicted by these blazing holocausts.
BUSHFIRE WARS is the story of the men and women from the Parks and Wildlife Service in Western Australia, who risk their lives to fight the scorching enemy. The battleground is the biggest in the world, covering millions of square kilometres of forests and bush land. All ready to explode into flames at any second.
They combat the scorching enemy with the largest squadron of firespotting aircraft on the planet. Bombers attack the firestorm from the air. Armoured bulldozers assault the inferno on the ground together with troops of incredibly brave men and women. Their battle is relentless. It has to be; their enemy is a remorseless, unpredictable, and indiscriminate killer.
This is the first time specially ‘fire-trained’ camera crews have gone into the field alongside bushfire fighters to capture the action. This landmark series will use state-of-the-art camera technology with forty fixed cameras on choppers, planes, bulldozers, four wheel drives and body-cams to give viewers a terrifying and intimate window into a world rarely seen.