Fortune Magazine had an interesting article about the Disneyland Fire Department. Which I didn’t even know existed. It was interesting how they are always on set for the various TV shows like Flash Forward to Disney movies like Pirates. Check it out.
When the script for the science-fiction TV series “FlashForward” called for a scene inside a burned-out restaurant, the crew assembled the makeshift eatery and set it on fire.
Watching it all was Jim Capodieci. As captain of Disney’s fire department, he had to make sure the production crew was safe. Standard fireman stuff. The tricky part? The faux restaurant had to look just right. And one false move and the whole set could burn.
Making sure staged fireballs don’t turn into real ones is just part of the job for Capodieci. His team stands ready whenever a scene from “General Hospital” requires a car to blow up, or crews need to pull off crucial fire stunts in films like “Pirates of the Caribbean.”
But Disney’s firefighting team, based in Burbank, Calif., has a more serious mandate: to protect the company’s workforce in a part of the country that’s prone to fires and sits smack on top of an earthquake fault line.
Today the Walt Disney Studios Fire Department, launched in 1989, is like any other around the country — it has its own station, its own fire engine, and 15 firefighters. (The one exception: no Dalmatian. You figured they would have one of those, right?)
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Photo Gregg Segal
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