A smokejumper must save his fire-fighting crew and a hapless ornithologist from the blaze of a lifetime while fending off a convicted killer.
Firefighter Jesse Graves has to save ornithologist Jennifer and other people caught in a forest fire, which was set up by the lawyer of convicted killer Earl Shaye, who escaped from the prison with several of his inmates posing as firefighters to recover $37,000,000 in stashed loot.