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  • It Takes a Choir On Fire in Colorado (Season 1, Episode 5)
  • TV-PG
    TV Episode | 43 min | Documentary

It Takes a Choir

On Fire in Colorado (Season 1, Episode 5)
TV-PG
TV Episode | 43 min | Documentary
The fire & rescue department in Windsor-Severance, Colorado, located just outside of Denver, has been growing in leaps and bounds because of population growth and development. How that growth has manifested itself is the department's ...See moreThe fire & rescue department in Windsor-Severance, Colorado, located just outside of Denver, has been growing in leaps and bounds because of population growth and development. How that growth has manifested itself is the department's services now being housed in three separate centers, where the personnel at each does not know the personnel at the other two locations, which is not good for team building as firefighting requires trust amongst the ranks for life and death situations. Gareth believes that a choir within the department not only will provide an outlet for the team members to get to know each other, but also provide that camaraderie required to foster cooperation in their work. Beyond the real life distractions of needing to attend to calls, Gareth finds that other major obstacles in establishing a choir are that firefighters are trained not to show emotion which he wants in their singing, the team mentality making the firefighters shy about standing out as individuals, and the fear of not wanting to appear foolish to maintain their standing in the community. Beyond the overall goal of bringing the department members together, he hopes some people will benefit personally from being in the choir, including: artistically inclined Austin, who has challenges in his day to day life being dyslexic; Erik, a self-professed non-singer who wants to serenade his wife Emily for a special occasion; and Tracy, the only female firefighter who wants to make her male counterparts feel more comfortable with her in their work. Written by Huggo See less
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Director
Michael McNamara
Cinematographer
Laurent Basset
Editors
Adam Daroff | Peter Gamba | Tom Meshelski
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Status
Edit Released
Updated Dec 29, 2014
Release date
Dec 29, 2014 (United States)

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