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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- Smoke, a moving short film created by the Allen Fire Department in partnership with Prelude Films. Smoke follows a firefighter returning home after the toughest shift of his career, opening an honest and necessary conversation around mental health in the first responder community.
Official Selection at 24 Film Festivals worldwide, Smoke has been celebrated for its powerful storytelling, winning awards such as Best in Show at the El Dorado Film Festival and the Special Jury Prize for Cinematography and Direction at the Dallas International Film Festival.
Chief Boyd's Introduction - • Smoke Introduction
Post Film Q&A - • Smoke Q&A
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This is one of the best representations of the life I’ve seen. I’ve been a firefighter/paramedic for 21 years and made Lt 3 years ago. You run all night and see some bullcrap, and some legit stuff, and when you get home, they have no idea what you’re coming home from, and you couple that with being worn out and try to live a normal day with your family. Then turn around and go right back after 2 days. Man, what a good film. I’ve and seen it all, brother. The emotion this man was dealing with, I’ve been there so many times. Dead kids, people hurt bad, people losing everything they have worked for. Then you see your wife and kids and you just want to hold them. I felt this movie.
Finally a film that actually shows accurate firefighting. Can't see shit in a real fire and the PASS alarm gave me chills this hits home
sure does .. hits home real hard...
Is this a actual full film or
BACKDRAFT
Just got off a 48. Worked Day before new years and New Year’s Eve. Just got home and came across this short film. Wasn’t even searching for anything close to this! This hit me bad. Family still asleep now on New Year’s Day. I am sitting in my living room alone crying my eyes out. Trying my best to keep it short so when they come down dad/ husband is ready for the day with family. All the while heading back tomorrow for another 24. I chose this career when I was just 5 years old. 36 now, and been at it for a decade. We get to do amazing things, but it comes with a cost. When people ask if i “love my job”… my response has changed over the years. I understand I am truly blessed to be one of the select few to do what we do for a living. Current day response to that question is, I love the people I get to do this job with! At the end of the shift, we take the uniform off and we go back to regular life! But at what cost…
Take care of your minds brothers and sisters! I cannot stress this enough.
Stay safe.❤
This is absolutely insane. The cinematics, the firefighting shots, it’s perfect.
Love this. My only criticism is that it doesn’t take a downed firefighter or a fire at all. The grind. The EMS side. Lack of sleep and balance. It doesn’t always take a bad call or a bad fire. It’s cumulative.
I think this approaches that aspect of the job rather well; a lot of people are worn out/thin but still good until there’s some kind of tipping point that sends them onto a downward trajectory.
It’s like shock; people compensate and compensate and compensate until they either can’t anymore, or some other traumatic event shocks the system even further and they start that de-compensatory slide.
You’re right, it may not necessarily be a mayday or a bad call, but a lot of times it is.
Yep. The bucket fills up over weeks, months, years. Then it overflows. Rarely happens because of one incident.
24 years in the fire service. This hits home.
Thank you for your service. Im thinking about becoming a fire fighter myself in the near future.
this needs to become a full fledged movie.
31 years of service, last 17 career, hits the nail on the head. Well done, it’s a tough job on everyone.
The beginning, the chatting on the way followed by absolute silence prior to arrival, deployment.... f***ing perfect. 🇨🇺👨🚒🚒🚒🇺🇸
Always talk to your station brothers or go out to dinner together, that helps us when the family doesn't understand. Greetings from Argentina
Thank you. Truly. Hits close to home for all of us and captures the situation we’re all trying to navigate at home. Stay strong Fire Fam!!! 🙏
This is unreal quality for a youtube channel. Thank you for the accuracy and effort put into this.
I just watched a video of myself. Thank you for bringing to light a tough subject to talk about
Brilliant short film. Beautifully shot and I loved the naturalistic script and acting. SO powerful with that ending shot too. In therapy I often talk about the inner child concept, the emotional part of yourself that you need to nurture and show kindness too, not lock away in a box.
I can't say much as im only a junior firefighter but what videos like this show me is that of course if i go this route in life i will see things and people on their worst day and this film just reminds me how important it will be to be able to reach out to people after seeing something you didnt want to see but you had too because its part of the job. so far i have seen some messed up things but not nearly as bad as some of you genuine firefighters and i think it's great this film shows people and hopeful dreamers of the job like me what its really like and not just some tv show.
If you’ve been there, then you know. If you haven’t experienced it from one side or the other, hopefully this gives some insight. Great video. Great message. Very well done. You all should be proud of this.
Man… this hit… 😢
Thank you for making this. It rams home the need to talk about mental health among first responders of all stripes. The things we see out there on the job change us in ways we cannot comprehend, and if we don't speak on them, excise our daemons as it were, we might lose ourselves to them. For ourselves, for our families and friends, for our brothers and sisters, we need to sit down and talk. Even if no resolution is reached, at least we can find some closure and comfort in being heard.
Awesome!
This was incredibly hard to watch because how scary accurate it is.
Very good short film, always remember if 2 go in both come out. Stay safe guys.
Three minutes in, already feel a weight on my heart. Damn that feels real.
It’s brave to share how you’re feeling. It’s one of the hardest things you’ll ever do and one of the most freeing as well.
5/5 would recommend, and will be sharing with paramedics/firefighters. This is deep, this is real. This is the unspoken about part of first responders. Damn that hits.
Great representation.
Deep stuff right there!
Wow. Extremely well done.
Fucking pass alarm gives me the chills
As a fire wife, this hits home
Looks good so far.
that was brilliant
I wish I had been able to communicate after I had some bad shifts. I am paying for it now. This is a great eye opener for those coming up through the service.
Most of this is true. Why I left this career, did it for the health of myself and my family. Miss parts but I believe it was the best decision of my life. Trauma Drama Cancer the list goes on… stay safe
Well done. I’d love to see more like this. More of stories of them getting help.
See the amount of stress we get under while we’re in the Fire service that’s why we focus on our job more than we focus on personal life because being a firefighter, you have to have focus and that ruins our personal life with our families
…and I bet he can’t wait to get home, back home, back to his fire station home, where he’s understood, where everything feels normal. Where he’s in control.
WOW! POWERFUL! We Men tend to hold back our emotions and hide our pain as to not be seen as weak. LET IT OUT GUYS! IT WILL ONLY FESTER AND BECOME BIGGER THE LONGER WE DENY OUR TRUE FEELINGS! TELL SOMEBODY HOW YOU FEEL CRYING IS A HEALTHY EMOTION.
It's easy for you to say that. But in reality men & women in public safety have had to lock down our feelings & emotions while working calls over and over. You can't let it stuff get to you, you'll lose your focus on the task at hand. That puts you in danger, and your brothers & sisters. It gets to the point where we've been conditioned, that's your normal response and you don't know how to deal with otherwise. Nobody gets any training on how to let it out, and neither do our significant others in how to be supportive.
I understand what he was going through I been in the fire service for 13 years and it's no joke about ptsd it's real for all of us
The complexities of having two separate family lives going on at one time is real. There are things that you just can’t bring home with you. Even when you do share some things, it’s a risk. Just being gone from home fully 1/3 of the time on the job causes more stress, on top of the real life and death issues we deal with all the time. The film does a good job opening the door to these issues.
So very accurate of what the life can really be like. Awesome video
Excellent channel love al your productions more more more
Well done,
Absolute work of art. Well done
Вся суть нашей работы.... Боль и страдания перенести через работу. Но домой не приносить тяжесть.
It’s so easy to say “Im ok” and that’s what sucks. When you aren’t okay, it’s hard to say it. Be honest with people. When they ask if you’re okay, tell them the truth. It’s better to say you’re not okay and get the help you need than to suffer in silence.
Wow. What an excellent production. The cinematography and how the subject matter were portrayed are equally very well done.
The low air alarms and the pass bro geez
Amazing work thank you.
Fuck. This hits to the core. Every single aspect.
Awesome documentary about firefighting
That water supply is everything
This is amazing and deserves a lot more views thank you for making this
Great job you can really since the emotions!
I lucked out and married an army nurse. Never heard any flak about the job and she brings baked goodies to the station.
Yeah it's so important in my opinion to have a partner that 'knows' - some people just want to have a partner that has no idea so they come home to 'peace' but from what I've seen that rarely works out perfectly. They can't possibly know or understand what you can go through during a single shift that f's you up for the rest of you life
As a firefighter now retired it's the wife and kids that suffer as much as you do .
Yeah you're working to provide for the family and at first the wife and kids understand but over time it begins to wear on them it's not just birthdays it's everyday things holidays probably being the worst .
In your head your doing the right thing providing for your family but in the wife's head your never home it's like your out having fun with the boys while she is holding down the fort it begins to wear on herself.
Amazing!
hits hard, good film
Make this viral
This is great
My roommates and I all work in Fire EMS. It’s very hard for us to reset after shift sometimes. Especially with family and romantic partners and things like that.
This is incredible and amazing. I don't like these tv series crap they have to watch. When you do come home its tough to talk about because no body understands what we deal with or see everyday.
Strong work on this.
This thing we call The Job, you can't come home and talk about it,you just can't. We have got to get better mental health help available for us to be ok.
Liked and shared
What tv shows should look like
Hey I hope this doesn’t sound too soft or whatever, but this video ought to have a disclaimer at the beginning that it might cause difficult thoughts/imagery to occur in firefighters who have actually been through it like this.
This is about as accurate as it gets.
I think your right. That could cause some flashbacks for some.
I would love to see this have seasons like Chicago Fire
Chicago Fire sucks. Doesn’t show any real representation of the fire service.
Fucking awesome.
Bustin balls on the way to the fire. That’s real. Chaos at home. Real.
Smoke makes you feel angry
Our great grandfathers cried less during WWll
Was looking for this one 😂😂😂
Spoken like someone with absolutely no clue about soldiers or first responders
@@anneasher1866 lmfao, dude you have no clue
and look how that turned out for them. they took it out on their wives. on their children. they went to bars to drink their pain away.
Dad needs a nap
Wouldn't happen if they were 48/96
Yeah right, because working 24/48 doesn’t put enough stress/strain on ourselves and our families. 😂
Not globe gear 😭, LION is better
Do yourself a favor. Don't be married in this line of work lol
My favorite part was when they were on their way to the house job and dude asked “are we first in or we catching the plug”! Fuck yeah! You can skip all the emotional garbage. No one cares. Work harder