backdraft
... flaming piece of charcoal. During a backdraft, (which is very rare I might add) the conditions are a very abundant amount of yellow-grayish smoke puffing out of every nook and cranny in the structure. Not just the bottom of the door when the victims just happened to drop they're keys. Also if you look in the window of the second backdraft scene, you'll notice a lamp that is not only undamaged from fire, but it's still lit! Not only would it be evaporated to ashes prior to a backdraft, the windows would be stained black and cracked (another sign of impending backdraft). Still backdraft was a great movie, but lacking realism in some of it scenes.The most memorable scene in the movie is when Kurt Russell emerges from an apartment that is completely engulfed in flames with a small child in his arms. However this scene is untrue and it doesn't take a fire fighter to realize that he should have been on his hands and knees getting out of there. Temperatures in a room that has already flashed over and completely engulfed in flames could reach several hundred degrees just feet off of the floor, and our hero LT. McCaffrey just struts out with no breathing apparatus and his coat isn't even buttoned. If that were for real, Stephen would have come out of that apartment with his head a looking like a fla...