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Pyros

Pyros

Description: Montreal's Groupe Fiatlux-Ampleman, or GFA, is one of Canada's most popular pyrotechnics groups. `Pyros' follows GFA's leader, Maude Furtado, and her team as they crisscross the globe to put on complex, unusual and often extraordinary displays at world-class events and competitions. In this business of working with unpredictable and explosive components, mishaps are not only costly for the company, but also potentially life-threatening to the crew. During their travels, members of GFA face uncooperative weather, public humiliation and the ever-present threat of injury in order to be the best in the business.
Genre: Documentary
Year Released: 2012
Number of seasons: 2
Number of episodes: 16
First episode air date: June 12, 2012
Network: Discovery Channel
Cast: Maude Furtado, Benoit Berthelet, Hugues Lalonde, MORE
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