Notes from the fireground : memoir of a New York firefighter /
""In a 33-year career with the New York City Fire Department, Tom Dunne fought hundreds of fires, survived near death incidents, crawled down burning hallways, met unforgettable characters, and witnessed the 9/11 terrorist attack. From working in glittering mid-Manhattan high-rises to squa...
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Jefferson, North Carolina :
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers,
[2020]
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Author's Note
- Preface
- The Smoke House
- Seeing the Elephant
- This Guy's Light
- The 15/16ths Jewel
- The Scuttle
- The Wrapper
- The Guys (and Gals)
- What's Behind Door Number 2?
- Celebrity Steam Leaks
- Going Down
- Hey Lieu!
- Buffs
- What If?
- A Discourse on Dirt
- A Brush with Mortality
- Lost in Translation
- Letters in the Attic
- A Jane Doe
- Commanding Stress
- Thinking Like an Incident Commander
- On the Circuit
- The Lie
- Zen and the Art of Firefighting
- The Write Stuff
- A Midnight Clear
- And Now, Live on Scene ...
- The Day After
- We're Only Human
- The Papers
- Mentors and Maniacs
- My Two Worlds
- Let It Burn
- Leaving the Tribe
- Why Me?
- Final Thoughts
- Index
