The Greatest Firefighter Stories Never Told
| Author | : Mike Santangelo |
| Publisher | : Andrews McMeel Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 228 |
| Release | : 2002-08-02 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780740728204 |
Collection of fifteen stories of heroism.
The Greatest Firefighter Stories Never Told
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Last Man Down
| Author | : Richard Picciotto |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 273 |
| Release | : 2003-05-06 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1101220759 |
A first responder’s harrowing account of 9/11—the inspirational true story of an American hero who gave nearly everything for others during one of New York City’s darkest hours. On September 11, 2001, FDNY Battalion Chief Richard “Pitch” Picciotto answered the call heard around the world. In minutes, he was at Ground Zero of the worst terrorist attack on American soil, as the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center began to burn—and then to buckle. A veteran of the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, Picciotto was eerily familiar with the inside of the North Tower. And it was there that he concentrated his rescue efforts. It was in its smoky stairwells where he heard and felt the South Tower collapse. He made the call for firemen and rescue workers to evacuate, while he stayed behind with a skeleton team of men to help evacuate a group of disabled and infirm civilians. And it was in the rubble of the North Tower where Picciotto found himself buried—for more than four hours after the building’s collapse.
The Greatest Survivor Stories Never Told
| Author | : Mara Bovsun |
| Publisher | : Andrews McMeel Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 230 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780740727283 |
A seventeen-year-old girl survives a plane crash in the Amazon and, despite maggots festering in her open wounds, finds her way to help and safety. This amazing story of courage and luck, which leaves the young woman the lone survivor from a wreck that claimed her mother and 90 other passengers, is only one of many riveting stories from Allan Zullo's and Mara Bovsun's new book on survival. In The Greatest Survival Stories Never Told, readers can learn all about real survivors like the Honduran mother of three who drifts in the sea for days after Hurricane Mitch destroys her home and family. In her case, a red bra was the key to survival since the brightly colored object finally caught the attention of the Coast Guard flying nearby.Or they can read about the New York businessman who endures thirteen days in a muddy hole after kidnappers demand that his family put up three million bucks for his return. As he sits in the cramped, dark pit, he composes his autobiography aloud to save his sanity until his rescue.In The Greatest Survival Stories Never Told, dozens of stories of grit and heart will inspire readers everywhere. The book makes for exhilarating reading.
The Rescuer
| Author | : Jason Sautel |
| Publisher | : Thomas Nelson |
| Total Pages | : 206 |
| Release | : 2020-09-01 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1400216486 |
He helped save people every day—but he had no idea how to save himself. Jason Sautel had it all. Confident in his abilities and trusted by his fellow firefighters, he was making a name for himself on the streets of Oakland, California. His adrenaline-fueled job even helped him forget the pain of his childhood—until the day he looked into the eyes of a jumper on the Bay Bridge and came face to face with a darkness he knew would take him down as well. In the following months, a series of traumatic emergency calls—some successful, others impossible-to-forget failures—drove Jason deeper into depression. Even as he continued his lifesaving work, he realized he could never rescue everyone, and he had no idea how to save himself. In the end, Jason was forced to confront the truth: only the relentless power of love could pull him back from his own deadly fall. Action-packed, spiritually honest, and surprisingly romantic, The Rescuer transports readers inside the pulse-pounding world of firefighting and into the heart of a man who needed to be broken before he could finally be made whole.
Working Fire
| Author | : Zac Unger |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 273 |
| Release | : 2005-02-22 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0143034952 |
Zac Unger didn’t feel like much of a fireman at first. Most of his fellow recruits seemed to have planned for the job all their lives; he was an Ivy League grad responding to an ad at a bus stop. He couldn’t keep his boots shined, and he looked terrible in his uniform. Working Fire is the story of how, from this unlikely beginning, Zac Unger came to feel at home among this close-knit tribe, came to master his work’s demands, and came to know what it is to see the world through a firefighter’s eyes. From the raw material of his days’ work—alarm calls both harrowing and hilarious, moments of triumph and grief—Unger has forged a timeless story of finding one’s path, and a rousing adventure about the bravery and sacrifice of everyday heroes. On the web: http://www.zacunger.com
Daniel and the Firefighters
| Author | : |
| Publisher | : Simon Spotlight |
| Total Pages | : 24 |
| Release | : 2020-12-08 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1534480676 |
A new generation of children love Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood, inspired by the classic series Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood! Daniel Tiger meets the neighborhood firefighters in this 8x8 storybook based on an all-new episode from the hit PBS show, Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood! Daniel Tiger loves firefighters! Today at school, he gets to meet real firefighters, and it turns out Dr. Anna is one of them. Daniel didn’t know that someone could be a doctor and a firefighter! Daniel likes firefighters, but he also likes boats, dolls, music, and more. Maybe he can grow up to be more than one thing, too! © 2020 The Fred Rogers Company
The Fire Inside
| Author | : Steve Delsohn |
| Publisher | : Harper Collins |
| Total Pages | : 273 |
| Release | : 2010-10-26 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0062031864 |
In the tradition of Mark Baker's Cops, more than 100 top firefighters describe the highs and lows of the world's most dangerous profession. Fascinating and packed with emotion,The Fire Inside is a unique look at the unseen world of firefighters who risk their lives for strangers every day In their own words, these male and female heroes vividly describe how they cope with scorching flame, injuries, earthquakes, hazardous waste, and wildfire-and the rewards that keep them climbing back on the fire truck.
Report from Ground Zero
| Author | : Dennis Smith |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 417 |
| Release | : 2003-02-25 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1101213159 |
The tragic events of September 11, 2001, forever altered the American landscape, both figuratively and literally. Immediately after the jets struck the twin towers of the World Trade Center, Dennis Smith, a former firefighter, reported to Manhattan’s Ladder Co. 16 to volunteer in the rescue efforts. In the weeks that followed, Smith was present on the front lines, attending to the wounded, sifting through the wreckage, and mourning with New York’s devastated fire and police departments. This is Smith’s vivid account of the rescue efforts by the fire and police departments and emergency medical teams as they rushed to face a disaster that would claim thousands of lives. Smith takes readers inside the minds and lives of the rescuers at Ground Zero as he shares stories about these heroic individuals and the effect their loss had on their families and their companies. “It is,” says Smith, “the real and living history of the worst day in America since Pearl Harbor.” Written with drama and urgency, Report from Ground Zero honors the men and women who—in America’s darkest hours—redefined our understanding of courage.
On the Line
| Author | : Linda Frances Willing |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 176 |
| Release | : 2011-08-01 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 9781610430067 |
This book puts a face on women in the fire service, as they share their best stories and the challenges, triumphs, joys and sorrows of being a firefighter, on the line in service to their communities.
On Fire
| Author | : Larry Brown |
| Publisher | : Algonquin Books |
| Total Pages | : 209 |
| Release | : 2018-07-03 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1616208708 |
NOW WITH A FOREWORD BY RON RASH AND AN APPRECIATION BY DWIGHT GARNER “One of the finest books I know about blue-collar work in America, its rewards and frustrations . . . If you are among the tens of millions who have never read Brown, this is a perfect introduction.” —Dwight Garner, The New York Times On January 6, 1990, after seventeen years on the job, Larry Brown quit the Oxford, Mississippi, fire department to try writing full-time. In On Fire, he looks back on his life as a firefighter. His unflinching accounts of daily trauma—from the blistering heat of burning trailer homes to the crunch of broken glass at crash scenes—catapult readers into the hard reality that drove this award-winning novelist. As a firefighter and fireman-turned-author, as husband and hunter, and as father and son, Brown offers insights into the choices men face pursuing their life’s work. And, in the forthright style we expect from Larry Brown, his narrative builds to the explanation of how one man who regularly confronted death began to burn with the desire to write about life.
