-- MBTV Premieres Reality Format Video Series, "Cooking with Fire" --

(Black PR Wire) -- Miami Beach, FL – Miami Beach Fire Department’s dual-trained paramedic/firefighter professionals are on duty 365 days a year ready to save lives of residents and visitors. However, there is another job in the firehouse just as important as a rescue – cook.

The new original four-part television series, “Cooking with Fire,” highlights Miami Beach Fire Department’s skills in the face of flames and danger on the streets and shares the culinary talents of firehouse chefs – a sizzling combination. Miami Beach’s award-winning government access channel, MBTV, premiered the first episode of “Cooking with Fire” on Tuesday, January 20, 2015 to rave reviews.

“I just watched “Cooking with Fire” and it was awesome! I enjoyed seeing the “behind-the-scenes” of a hard day for firefighters and by the end I was so hungry from seeing the mouth-watering Vaca Frita,” said one viewer.

Each episode features a firefighter from one of the four fire stations preparing dinner for the crew and highlights an action-packed day; sun-up to sun-down on the streets of Miami Beach for life-saving rescue calls– it’s all in a day’s work for Miami Beach Fire Rescue.

“We want to exchange public information while entertaining the audience with human interest stories,” said Director and Executive Producer Nannette Rodriguez, Office of Communications, City of Miami Beach. “We’ve put together a team of award-winning journalists to produce industry-competitive shows, the likes not typically found on government television.”

The “Cooking with Fire” production team includes host and senior producer, Media Ambassador Julia Yarbough, reporter and host Public Information Specialist Melissa Berthier, photographer and producer Media Specialists Ben Gonzalez and Jeffrey Singer, Video Editor Alicia Zaitsu and Dean Chambers, Visual Communications Specialist.

“I am extremely proud of our MBTV team for the quality of programs we are producing,” explains host and senior producer, Julia Yarbough. “It’s exciting to blend more than twenty years of broadcast news experience with fresh creativity to bring “Cooking with Fire” to life and and help create a new reputation for programming on public television.”

In South Florida MBTV is available on Atlantic Broadband Channels 77, 90 or 107.3, on AT&T U-verse Channel 99, and on-demand at www.MiamiBeachFl.gov/MBTV77 and the City of Miami Beach YouTube Channel.