Rick Kogan: The new documentary ‘Hotshot’ takes viewers to the frightening front lines of wildfires
CHICAGO — We are a fire town. Though it was long ago and there exist no photographs of the Chicago Fire of 1871, it shadows and defines our history, even as we are awash in contemporary conflagrations. The images flash before our eyes of the flames that leveled parts of Maui recently. And TV has been giving us a steady visual diet of wildfires that rage across the country, most frequently destroying parts of California.
That is the shattering subject of a new and astonishing documentary titled “Hotshot,” which is both terrifying and enlightening.
It takes viewers into the relatively unknown world of firefighters who are known as “hotshots” with an intensity and intimacy.
It is the work of Gabriel
