‘Backdraft’ at 30: Ron Howard Reflects on Harrowing Special Effects and the Dangers of Filming With Fire " [We] just never knew when the fire was going to get away from us," recalls the ...

The backdraft that blew apart a Sycamore, Illinois church earlier this month has been named the largest backdraft ever documented in the U.S., local fire and ATF officials said.

Backdraft Leaves Four Chicago Firefighters Burned Some of the firefighters jumped from a second-story window to escape the fire.

Backdraft refers to the phenomenon when a fire subsides because it’s burned up all the oxygen in the room—then, if somehow the room is breached—a door is opened or the roof bitten through by ...

Former Chicago fire investigator Don Rimgale, who helped Robert De Niro prepare for "Backdraft," died of cancer Monday at his Elmhurst home at 77.