[7] In album reviews, Jo Tindling of Amplifier and Scott Kara of The New Zealand Herald compared "Running Through the Fire (Storm)" to the work of Ladyhawke.

[9][10] The song was a finalist for the 2010 APRA Silver Scroll, a peer-judged songwriting award,[11] but lost to The Naked and Famous' "Young Blood".

[16] A one shot, it features Moa playing an electric guitar and singing with her backing band, then walking around a garden in the night.

Moa performed "Running Through the Fire" on Close Up on 5 April 2010,[3] the day that the album, Love in Motion, was released in New Zealand.

[20] Band Together, a benefit concert was held in North Hagley Park in response to the 2010 Canterbury earthquake on 23 October 2010, which Moa appeared at.