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Lok Tin Yau has always dreamed of becoming a firefighter. Sum Pik Yiu and Tin Yau are good friends but Tin Yau later falls for Pik Yiu after he helps her. But she has to give her feelings up for him when his childhood friend comes to Hong Kong from Japan. Lok Hew Fung, Lok Tin Yau, and Ng Dai Heng are best friends who join and become firefighters. This drama is about the lives of firefighters and the situations that they deal with everyday Edit Translation

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  • Country: Hong Kong
  • Type: Drama
  • Episodes: 43
  • Aired: Oct 12, 1998 - Dec 6, 1998
  • Aired On: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
  • Original Network: TVB Jade
  • Duration: 45 min.
  • Score: 7.6 (scored by 166 users)
  • Ranked: #53633
  • Popularity: #14999
  • Content Rating: Not Yet Rated

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43 of 43 episodes seen
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Overall 5.5
Story 4.5
Acting/Cast 9.0
Music 5.0
Rewatch Value 4.0
If I could and if I was petulant enough, I would like to give this drama 10/10 just for Wong Hei and Chin Ka Lok.

What actually stopped me from doing so was the way the story quickly derailed into the kind of melodrama I absolutely abhor in the 90s and early 2000s TVB dramas. Messy love triangles? Checked. Jealous, prideful male characters who insist on emotionally blackmailing the women they so-called love? Checked. Mental illness being twisted into something scary? Checked. Unnecessary resorting to suicide? Checked.

Nitpicking aside, the performances by the artistes were top-notch, especially Wong Hei's. It's no wonder he was in all three installments of the Burning Flame series as he quickly grabbed the audience's attention as the passionate firefighter. Tin-Yau's rash and impulsive abandoning of his own safety can be a tad annoying at times but ultimately, we all root for him. Same goes to Chin Ka Lok's Dai-Heng and tragically, Joe Tay's Bat. Even Lee San San, whom I was never really impressed with, managed to win me over in her role of endearing and sweet girl-next-door Yuet.

Ultimately, this is a prime example of 90s TVB dramas and definitely, a lasting memory of many HK citizens. But it is not something I would like to re-watch.

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  • Drama: Burning Flame
  • Country: Hong Kong
  • Episodes: 43
  • Aired: Oct 12, 1998 - Dec 6, 1998
  • Aired On: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
  • Original Network: TVB Jade
  • Duration: 45 min.
  • Content Rating: Not Yet Rated

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  • Score: 7.6 (scored by 166 users)
  • Ranked: #53633
  • Popularity: #14999
  • Watchers: 359

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