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A common way for a work to show a character is heroic is by having them putting themselves in harm's way to rescue others, and the fire rescue is a classic example. The fire might a burning building, or car, or any other fire in general, but generally it will threaten the life of the character who enters it. Expect it to happen regularly in a work focused on firefighters.
A subversion sometimes occurs where a character will attempt to invoke this trope by setting the fire themselves, and then enter into it to rescue someone, hoping to come off as a hero. Usually this will backfire spectacularly.
Supertrope of [[Burning Building Rescue]] (which is about a superhero using their powers, generally for the first time, and that is where superhero examples of this trope reside). Can be used as an [[Establishing Character Moment]], [[Rescue Introduction]] or to kickstart a [[Rescue Romance]]. If the character is already shown as being heroic, it can be used to underline their [[Chronic Hero Syndrome]].
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* ''[[Backdraft]]'': As most of the man characters are firefighters by profession this happens multiple times in the film.
* In ''[[Mighty Joe Young]]'', a rescue of this nature occurs toward the end of the film.
* In ''[[Pee
* The title character of ''[[Bolt]]'', a dog who thought he was a superhero, shows his true heroism by running into a burning soundstage to rescue his girl Penny.
* Occurs in ''[[Crash (film)|Crash]]'' when Officer John Ryan, so far shown only as a racist, performs a rescue of a black character from a burning car and hence gets [[Character Development]] into a [[Noble Bigot with a Badge]].
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* Phase pulls this in his origin novel "Ayla and the Late Trevor James Goodkind" in the [[Whateley Universe]]. He rushes to a burning building and saves his sister from a supervillainess who is throwing fireballs. It is only after getting hit with a fireball himself that he finds out he is fireproof (some of the time).
== Western Animation ==
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== Video Games ==
* In ''[[Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas]]'', there's a mission where CJ has to enter a burning house to rescue a girl. From fire he caused in the first place. Man's a hero, no doubt.
* ''[[Mass Effect 2]]'': In Zaeed's loyalty mission, Shepard has to choose between running into a burning refinery in order to turn on the fire suppression systems and rescue the workers, or pursue the man Zaeed has wanted revenge on for twenty years and ignore the workers.
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