page_title: Flash Point: Fire Rescue
section_title: Description
hierarchical_section_title: Flash Point: Fire Rescue / Description
caption_attribution_description: English: Flashpoint game pieces
context_page_description: Flash Point: Fire Rescue is a thematic cooperative board game designed by Kevin Lanzing with the help of firefighters. released in November 2011. The objective is for players to work together to rescue people and animals from a burning building before it collapses. Since the initial release of the game several expansions have been published, which add additional scenarios for players experience. These include fires in a high rise building, a two-story house, and a submarine.
context_section_description: Players are firefighters who at the simplest "family" level can move, put out fires, cut through walls and rescue victims; higher levels introduce specialized roles such as the fire captain, the  engine operator, hazmat technicians and paramedics.  The game "owe[s] a lot to Pandemic."
caption: Flashpoint game pieces
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