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Title: Firefighters: Their Lives in Their Own Words by Dennis Smith ISBN: 0-7679-1307-8 Publisher: Broadway Books Pub. Date: 12 March, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.43 (7 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: All About Firefighters
Comment: Do you like the thrill of going into a burning building? The book "Firefighters: Their Lives in Their Own Words", is written by Dennis Smith. Firefighting is not an easy thing to do. This book tells you what they do and how they live.
Firefighters do not live an easy life, despite what American people might think. The book explores firefighting all over the United States. Some of the places are New York City, Boston, San Francisco, and Chicago. Some firefighters go into the bucket of a ladder truck; others are interior. This means that they go into the burning building and put their lives at risk.
I give this book five stars and recommend this book to anyone that loves adventures. It is an easy read with lots of pictures.
Rating: 5
Summary: Firefighters in their own words
Comment: Smith, author of Report from Engine Co. 82 and editor of Firehouse magazine, has interviewed firefighters around the country, professional and volunteer, male and female, in big cities and in small towns, and here reports their observations about their careers. What shines through most consistently is their altruism: they love their work and not the least of the reasons for that affection is the opportunity they have to save lives, or at least to do good. Another strong element is camaraderie: firefighter after firefighter mentions the sense of family that each feels, a feeling almost as strong as that for the biological family. There are accounts of choosing firefighting as a career, the baptism of fire, firehouse life and, in a really harrowing chapter, details of some of the worst blazes. The book is as moving as it is informative.
Rating: 2
Summary: Just Could Not Get Into This Book
Comment: I'm not saying this book is bad, but I just could not get into this book. I thought I'd really enjoy it, but it's all one and two page anecdotes. A lot of them are very repetitive of the other ones. I think if they stuck to only a dozen or so in depth, it would have been more interesting and enjoyable, at least for me that is. But this is just my opinion, the other reviewers all seemed to enjoy it. If you think this book may appeal to you, go ahead and try it. Don't go by my opinion, after all it is only my humble opinion.
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Title: Report from Engine Co. 82 by Dennis Smith ISBN: 0446675520 Publisher: Little Brown & Company Pub. Date: 01 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Greatest Firefighter Stories Never Told by Mike Santangelo ISBN: 0740728202 Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing Pub. Date: 02 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Little Red Book of Firehouse Pranks by Jeff Hibbard ISBN: 0966781007 Publisher: Jeff Hibbard Pub. Date: 01 April, 1997 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: So Others Might Live: A History of New York's Bravest--The FDNY from 1700 to the Present by Terry Golway ISBN: 0465027407 Publisher: Basic Books Pub. Date: 03 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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Title: Firehouse by David Halberstam ISBN: 1401300057 Publisher: Hyperion Press Pub. Date: May, 2002 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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