Notes from the Firehouse: Seventeen Firefighting Stories from a Retired Firefighter

Notes from the Firehouse: Seventeen Firefighting Stories from a Retired Firefighter

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<span>A memoir from a retired firefighter about firefighting, rescue calls and life around the firehouse. <br>It's not all about fire - that's lesson number one. <br>No, it's a collection of things: assisting an injured person at three o'clock in the morning, calming a child in a traumatic situation, saving the belongings of a family from the ravages of a fire, seeing people in every heartbreaking situation imaginable and trying to help them, while not losing yourself in the process.<br>And it's about the insanity found in the firehouse - to the author it's the Cracker Factory - and the politics and pettiness that try unsuccessfully to steal the joy from the job. This book is the blue-collared view of a career firefighter. The seventeen stories in <i>Notes from the Firehouse</i> take the reader on a journey with the everyday firefighter from his first days as a rookie, to his last fire that prematurely sends him into retirement.</span>