Planes: Fire & Rescue (2014) on Netflix
PG20141h 23mAdventureAnimationComedy
Dusty Crophopper's gearbox is damaged, and inspectors close Propwash Junction's airport after a fire. He travels to Piston Peak National Park to train as a firefighter.
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- Netflix3.7/5
- IMDb5.9/1022,261 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes44%
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Plot summary
Dusty Crophopper won the Wings Around the Globe Rally, but his engine's gearbox is damaged, so Dottie, the mechanic at Propwash Junction, fits a warning light. Dusty takes a defiant flight, clips a transmission tower and comes down hard, hitting a pole and starting a blaze. The town's only fire truck, Mayday, cannot douse the flames, so inspectors shut the airport until the truck is refurbished and a second firefighter is added. Dusty volunteers and travels to Piston Peak National Park, where Blade Ranger commands a helicopter fire crew and Maru converts him into an air tanker.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Planes: Fire & Rescue (2014)
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- The film's premise that a cropduster could become a firefighting plane is grounded in real history: filmmakers learned that in 1955 cropdusters were among the first planes ever reworked to drop water for aerial firefighting.
- To research real smokejumpers, the filmmakers strapped cameras onto the helmets of actual US Forest Service trainees and filmed them jumping out of airplanes at annual training exercises.
- The fire truck character Pulaski is named after real firefighter Ed Pulaski, who saved most of his crew during the Great Fire of 1910 by sheltering them in an abandoned mine, and who also invented the firefighting axe-adze tool that still carries his name.
- The helicopter character Windlifter and the Native American folk tale he tells about Coyote being renewed by fire were developed with input from Dr. Paul Apodaca, a real expert on Native American myths and folklore.
- Voicing the RV character Winnie turned out to be Anne Meara's final screen role before her death in 2015.
- The film's fictional Piston Peak National Park went on to inspire a real theme-park area planned for Disney's Magic Kingdom, tied to the Cars franchise.
