Notes from the Fireground: Memoir of a New York Firefighter

ISBN-13: 9781476679884 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 213 str.

Thomas Dunne

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Acknowledgments  ix
Author's Note  x
Preface  1
The Smoke House  5
Seeing the Elephant  11
This Guy's Light  15
The 15/16ths Jewel  21
The Scuttle  24
The Wrapper  33
The Guys (and Gals)  41
What's Behind Door Number 2?  49
Celebrity Steam Leaks  54
Going Down  57
Hey Lieu!  63
Buffs  71
What If?  77
A Discourse on Dirt  83
A Brush with Mortality  88
Lost in Translation  94
Letters in the Attic  100
A Jane Doe  105
Commanding Stress  108
Thinking Like an Incident Commander  114
On the Circuit  122
The Lie  129
Zen and the Art of Firefighting  134
The Write Stuff  139
A Midnight Clear  144
And Now, Live on Scene…  150
The Day After  155
We're Only Human  162
The Papers  168
Mentors and Maniacs  175
My Two Worlds  182
Let It Burn  185
Leaving the Tribe  190
Why Me?  195
Final Thoughts  197
Index  199