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Interesting Questions, Facts and Information
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 Interesting Questions, Facts, and Information
 Backdraft
| In what year did the movie first take place? | Backdraft
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| What was the name of the magazine Brian was pictured on as a child? | Backdraft
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| What was the name of the bartender in the movie? | Backdraft
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| How many different characters did Kurt Russell play in the movie? | Backdraft
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2. He played Steven, as well as the boy's father in the 1971 scene.
| What year does the initial scenes of the movie take place? | Backdraft
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1971. The first scenes take place in 1971. The whole movie of course takes place in the Chicago metropolitan area.
| What engine number do Brian and his dad ride on in the first scene? | Backdraft
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46. Although Steven and Brian's father was in Fighting 17, he rides to the fire in engine number 46. Remember, 46 always had the ladder in both time periods.
| What company is John Adcox, 'Axe', in during the first scene of the movie (in 1971)? | Backdraft
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46. Although Adcox is Fighting 17 for the majority of the movie with Steven, he is a member of 46 at the beginning. Watch the scene as they ride to the fire. They show a shot of 'Axe' riding on the side of the fire engine. If you look at his helmet, it has the number 46.
| What is the serial number on the front of the McCaffrey father's helmet (I do not mean the number 17, but the number underneath it)? | Backdraft
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4764. You can see this in the beginning when Brian puts the helmet on and then when his father looks down at him from the balcany.
| When the Mcaffrey father's helmet falls to the ground after the explosion, you see two things. One is the name McCaffrey. The other is a number. What number is on his helmet? | Backdraft
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| What magazine puts Brian on the cover? | Backdraft
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| After the jump forward 20 years, we are in a bar. What is the name of the bartender who talks to Brian? | Backdraft
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Willie. 'Hey Willie, throw me brew!'
'Hold on, I am talking to the fire chief here!'
| What are the numbers of the two fire engines that drive past the bar on their way to the first backdraft (list in the order which they pass the bar)? | Backdraft
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6 and 24. The first fire engine to drive by is engine 6, which is the ladder truck. After they move outside, engine 24 drives by.
| What is the name of the driver for engine 17? | Backdraft
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Otis. 'Call the box Otis. We're going to need backup on this one!' (quote from Steven).
| What is the name of Brian's friend and fellow probationary fireman who joins 46 (contrary to his original assignment to 17)? | Backdraft
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| What company is Brian originally assigned to? | Backdraft
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115. Tim, 'McCaffrey, what's the matter with you? Aren't you a little curious?'
Brian, 'Engine 115, right?'
| In the first fire that Brian goes to (where he is a firefighter, not the first backdraft), what is the building? | Backdraft
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Garment Factory. The apartment complex is when Brian finally quits, the high-rise is after Brian quits, and the chemical plant is the final fire.
| When Brian and Steven are talking on their father's old boat, a barge goes by in the background. What does it say on the side of the barge? | Backdraft
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MSC8400 Material Service. You can make this out as the barge goes by behind them. Interestingly enough, in one of the shots about five seconds earlier, the angle shows the view down the river and there is no barge in site! A little mistake!
| Why was Brian late on his first day of work with engine 17? | Backdraft
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| Who jokes about cutting Santos out of his will? | Backdraft
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| What is the name of the fire chief whose retirement party is the movie? | Backdraft
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Jack Fitzgerald. Chief Jack Fitzgerald.
| What is the name of Steven and Helen's child? | Backdraft
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| What is Inspector Rimmegale's nickname? | Backdraft
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Shadow. He got the name when responding to a fire set by Ronald. Ronald lost his concentration and the fire turned on him. Rimmegale saved him, but he didn't see a tub of phosphorus which exploded and left a shadow of Rimmegale against the wall.
| What is the correct order that these men were killed? | Backdraft
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Seagrave, Cosgrove, Holcomb.
| What was the fire engine that Brian and Jennifer made love on? | Backdraft
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| At the high-rise fire, what floor did companies 17 and 46 get out of the elevator at? | Backdraft
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29. If you look closely, when they show them near the elevators, you can barely make out the number next to the elevator. A little later, you can clearly see a door number, 2916, denoting the 29th floor.
| Who is the last one, 'always the last one', on engine 46 (at least at the end of the movie)? | Backdraft
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Marty. '...Marty, why are you always the last one...!'
| What was the number of the fireboat that was present at the last fire at the chemical plant? | Backdraft
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58. On the shot after Steven saves Brian in the elevator shaft, they show a shot of the boat and you can make out the number 58 on both sides of the stern.
| At the end of the movie, the very end after Steven and Axe die, what is the address of the fire where they go to (including Brian who decides to rejoin 17)? | Backdraft
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1718 West Maplewood. '1718 West Maplewood. Got it cap?' Max at the end of the movie.
| What was the location (city) and year that the flashback sequence of the movie took place? | Backdraft
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| What time of day did the flashback scenes take place? | Backdraft
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Morning. During the flashback fire in 1971, we see 'Axe' bringing a little girl to safety, from the apartment-house fire. She is wearing a pair of pink feet pajamas. This leads us to believe that the fire takes place sometime in the early a.m. hours of the day.
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