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Onder Vuur (2021)
Unrealistic actions for drama's sake
So I am not a firefighter by trade but I have firefighting training. So good points:
1) when the hose-people went in, they had on their masks and they crawled around.
2) They took a charged hose with them
3) They correctly treated each door as a possible danger point.
4) They didn't just spray water everywhere when they didn't see flames
Bad points (and the reason for why this review):
1) when fire was found they sat there staring at it. As professionals, this shouldn't be something new to them.
2) they had a charged hose (aka a hose with water flowing through it), why didn't they start trying to putting out the fire or at least suppressing it once they found it? They just sat there and treated the fire as something they couldn't help reduce (the plot/whatever, and I am guessing here, was to wait for the ladder truck to pour water from the outside?) or initially put it out?
Was this done to increase drama? Make the scene seem more dangerous? It totally took me outside the show and was the deciding factor on just turning it off.
3) female firefighter - I have known plenty of professional competent female firefighters. Instead they have the only one, complaining of it being too hot? Unless she was a totally untrained rookie, this shouldn't be an issue for she is holding a charged hose (which she has used several times before earlier). Also she wasn't "in" the fire like the 2 other firefighters, they would have been much hotter. Once again, the writers/producers/directors seem to have made a horrible decision to make the scene be more dramatic.
4) Why was a firefighter attempting to arrest someone? There were police there and they are in communication with someone outside. I could understand making sure the person left the building safely but tackling him? Why? More whatever to make the scene "hard-hitting"?
For those reasons, I decided to skip watching this series. This is also why I don't bother watching Grey's Anatomy or other shows of it's ilk. Professional people making very bad rookie decisions to make the drama more exciting? No thank you.