A short series on the history of firefighting
SOMEBODY HAD TO INVENT EVERY WAY WE SURVIVE FIRES.
For centuries, a burning building meant watching from the street. Then came the innovators who refused to accept helplessness.
From a hand pump crafted in ancient Alexandria to a smoke hood worn into a poisoned tunnel beneath Lake Erie by the inventor who built it, every way we survive a fire was forged by someone who said, "That isn't enough." These are the stories of how we stopped simply watching fires, and started fighting them instead.
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Watch the short film
The Inventor
Garrett Morgan built a hood to help people breathe in smoke. Nobody would buy it. Then a tunnel under Lake Erie exploded with men still inside, and he went down after them.
This is the short we made first.
Full-length feature up next.