I approached this series with high expectations. The cast includes some of the best Australian talent, fresh from successes in other places. Legends like John Waters are guaranteed to attract an audience. The location and premise could provide excitement, tension, character depth. This should have been a gem of Australian drama. So what went wrong? The series was a flop and I am not the first to say so. The actors seemed to do as well as they could in the circumstances but the end result was a series that went nowhere. John Waters came across as a one-dimensional, grumpy, inflexible character. I soon lost interest in all the characters' problems. It seemed that the writers knew very little about fire fighting or country people. These were a bunch of city people planted in what was supposed to be an isolated settlement all of 60 miles from Sydney. The personal relationships, completely irrelevant to the bush context, soon dominated and we were in front of a typical soap opera. There were few characters to admire. The "action" scenes were predictable and full or clichés. Considering the importance of what real RFS / CFA volunteers do, this series was a terrible waste of a good idea.