Memoirs Of A Volunteer Firefighter

Author : Jason A. Borton
Publisher : Infinity Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0741494450
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memoirs of a Volunteer Firefighter written by Jason A. Borton and published by Infinity Publishing. This book was released on 2011-11-18 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A high school senior's attention is drawn out a classroom window to a fire engine racing down the street. He becomes a member of a volunteer fire company and comes to respect and fight fire. Along the way he also learns to deal with disgruntled bingo patr

Author : Bruce Zamelsky
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1438909438
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memoirs of a Firefighter/Paramedic written by Bruce Zamelsky and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2008 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has more than twenty years of real-life incidents and was written for two reasons. I want those who are just starting in this profession and also those who have many years' experience, both paid and volunteers, to understand the roller coaster of emotions they will experience. The other reason for writing this book is to try to explain to the general public what emergency responders go through and the many different emotions we experience. We are not robots- we are just like you. We are your neighbors, your teachers, and your friends. Every one of us has dedicated a tremendous amount of time and energy in preparing to be there in your time of need. It is our privilege and we love to do it. Everything I talk about in the book is real; there are no fabricated stories or sensationalizing to make the incidents sound more dramatic. They are written truthfully, as they happened, and the emotions are genuine. I hope this book sheds some light on the courageous and extraordinary people that work and volunteer in these professions and the challenges they face.

Author : John Wiznuk
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1525516140
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Warriors for the Working Day written by John Wiznuk and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2018-03-28 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1990, seeking an escape from city life, John Wiznuk moved to Saturna Island in British Columbia’s Southern Gulf Islands. Two years later, a friend invited him to one of the regular practices of the volunteer fire department. What began as a volunteer, part-time hobby soon became his life, launching a twenty-year involvement with the Saturna Island Volunteer Fire Department. He resigned as fire chief in 2012. Most people’s understanding of what volunteer firefighters do extends no further than childhood notions of big red trucks with flashing lights and screaming sirens zooming somewhere to save the day. The reality is more complex. Firefighters never know what the next call will be, or what they will find when they reach the site. The challenges extend beyond the physical ones of extinguishing flames, rescuing individuals, and dealing with disaster. People in stressful situations are unpredictable. Even those being helped may lash out. And within the fire department itself, as there are wherever there are human beings, there are squabbles, politics, and personality conflicts. Yet through it all, volunteer firefighters persevere, thinking quickly, adapting, dealing with the inevitable problems, focusing on solutions—making it happen, somehow, someway. In this heartfelt, fascinating, and deeply felt memoir, Wiznuk recounts the struggles and achievements, failures and successes, of his two decades as an emergency responder. It’s the story of one small rural volunteer fire service—but it’s also the universal story of similar services across Canada and around the world, wherever ordinary citizens voluntarily join forces to protect their homes and community...and in the process, become extraordinary.

Author : George DeVault
Publisher : Jump Seat Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 9780990923633
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fire Call! written by George DeVault and published by Jump Seat Press LLC. This book was released on 2015-11-18 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follow retired fire chief George DeVault into a burning house. A woman's trapped inside. Enter the little-known world of volunteer firefighters. Where daily life -- work, family, meals or sleep -- stops the second there's a fire call. "A terrific read. Full of exciting stories. Gut-twisting." -- Bill White, The Morning Call. Award-winning memoir.

Author : Christopher Teale Howes
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786469609
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hot Zone written by Christopher Teale Howes and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2012-10-10 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This memoir is a riveting account of what it's like to be a professional firefighter, from rookie to chief officer, over the course of a 31-year career. The anecdotes are funny, sad, and grim: all serve to educate readers about a profession that many dreamed about when they were children but would never pursue or truly understand. Chief Howes provides a better understanding of the profession and respect for the men and women who protect our communities by relating his own experiences as well as those of other firefighters in some of the busiest stations in the country. The author is donating 10% of royalties to the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation, the nonprofit group dedicated to the development and expansion of programs to honor our fallen fire heroes and assist their families and coworkers.

Author : Nick Brunacini
Publisher : Across the Street Prod.
ISBN 13 : 9780974753461
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book B-Shifter: A Firefighter's Memoir written by Nick Brunacini and published by Across the Street Prod.. This book was released on 2008-01 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brunacini makes the observation that fire departments more closely resemble cults or severely dysfunctional families than a regular workforce. He brings the reader into the closed world of fire station life and the wide range of personalities that a fire station houses.

Author : Jason Sautel
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
ISBN 13 : 1400216486
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rescuer written by Jason Sautel and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Ian McLaren
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Not My Emergency written by Ian McLaren and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-12-21 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not My Emergency recounts 21 years of balancing my role as a volunteer firefighter, school teacher/principal, husband and father in small town Alberta, Canada. I recount many of my most memorable calls, but the book is more focused on the dichotomy of trying to make the difficult transition from 'regular life' to emergency scenes and back again while maintaining my sanity. Some of the stories are humorous, a few of them are tragic and most have elements of both.

Author : Jason A. Ramos
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062319647
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Smokejumper written by Jason A. Ramos and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rare inside look at the thrilling world of smokejumpers, the airborne firefighters who parachute into the most remote and rugged areas of the United States, confronting the growing threat of nature’s blazes. Forest and wildland fires are growing larger, more numerous, and deadlier every year — record drought conditions, decades of forestry mismanagement, and the increasing encroachment of residential housing into the wilderness have combined to create a powder keg that threatens millions of acres and thousands of lives every year. One select group of men and women are part of America's front-line defense: smokejumpers. The smokejumper program operates through both the U.S. Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management. Though they are tremendously skilled and only highly experienced and able wildland firefighters are accepted into the training program, being a smokejumper remains an art that can only be learned on the job. Forest fires often behave in unpredictable ways: spreading almost instantaneously, shooting downhill behind a stiff tailwind, or even flowing like a liquid. In this extraordinarily rare memoir by an active-duty jumper, Jason Ramos takes readers into his exhilarating and dangerous world, explores smokejumping’s remarkable history, and explains why their services are more essential than ever before.

Author : Frank B. McCluskey
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595297234
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thoughts on Fire written by Frank B. McCluskey and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2004 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They can walk through fire. They would sacrifice their own lives to save yours. In the tradition of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Thoughts on Fire is a meditation on how to live a life that matters. Drawing on his dual life as a philosophy professor and firefighter, "Dr. Frank" begins a journey not just into the fire, but inside himself. The lessons of this voyage are not just about axes and hoses but hope, forgiveness and love. "As a professor and a firefighter, Dr. McCluskey shifts gears easily between the metaphysical and the macho, pontificating in a pin striped suit by day and plunging into a smoky, flaming house by night." -The New York Times "It is a book that you will want to read again and again. It is a remarkable story that you will want to share with those you love." -Dr. Robert Schachat, author of The Seven Conditions of Trust "Thoughts on Fire is a book that is at once entertaining and enlightening" -Dr. John Briggs, author of The Seven Life Lessons of Chaos