A champion high school swimmer on a camping trip with her brother and grandpa rescues an injured pilot from a mountain lake in the middle of nearby forest fires and has to find a way out.

SYNOPSIS:

A grandpa volunteers to take his two teenage grandkids camping while their father goes on a business trip and mother has her spa weekend. Though there’s a forest fire far over the mountains, they camp near a mountain lake after a mile hike from a trailhead. After the pilot from a malfunctioning smokejumper plane bails out and is injured, the plane crashes and starts a new fire. The daughter, a swim team member, rescues the pilot from the lake where he landed. The new fire blocks trail out and moves toward the campsite. While the group retreats to a small life raft retrieved (by the girl) from the parachute floating on the lake, the grandpa suffers a mild heart attack. At daybreak, they see that both fires have burned over the entire area and, with the help of a light drizzle, they may be able to escape. But the injured pilot and weakened grandpa rely on the two teens to head back to the grandpa’s parked truck for help. With the fire still smoldering and the truck totally burned up, the daughter heads down the trailhead road and her younger brother hikes back to the grandpa and pilot to report. The girl finds a crew dousing flames near a road, secures the help of a worker to drive an ATV back to rescue the rest of the party.

BY FIRE AND WATER