SA Firefighter
General Discussion => SA Firefighter General => Topic started by: PF_ on January 27, 2006, 02:09:05 PM
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What books about firefighting do people know of?
As I mentioned in another thread got a good book about Queensland Fire and Rescue Service by Gary McKay, "Firefighters"
(preferably books being sold in Australia)
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Does the MFS station sell books?
Got 2 from Adelaide, Firehouse-about a crew who went into the 9/11 towers and only one survived. Its a story about fireghters doing it as a job and the brother hood etc. ALso ordered one called "Fire trap" also known as "3000 degrees" About a crew in Massacussets who are trapped in a windowless brick wharehouse and their sory of how they got out. That will take 4-6 weeks to come in from England though. :oops:
Still missing one from my list and was owndering if Wakefield St station sold books.
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I have 3000 degrees. And its a true story about the Worchester cold storage Fire.. But not how they got out... Cause they didn't.
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I have 3000 degrees. And its a true story about the Worchester cold storage Fire.. But not how they got out... Cause they didn't.
DOnt say anymore Im waiting for it to come in :-P Assumed cause they wrote a story on it the got out...
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Oh they got out... just not ALL of them. Quite tragic really.
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cant remember the authors.. but a couple of good ones are "the red watch" (UK) and "20,000 alarms" (american)
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Another good on is Last man down, by Richard Picciotto, a NYC Fire Chief. He tells his story of him and his batallion entering the World Trade Centre. He has also done quite a few TV interviews about 9/11.
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Oh they got out... just not ALL of them. Quite tragic really.
hmm... Very tragic indeed... If only guidelines were used !
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Oh they got out... just not ALL of them. Quite tragic really.
hmm... Very tragic indeed... If only guidelines were used !
shuttup :-P :-P :-P
dont say anmore about it, dont want it ruined :roll:
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You Raised The Topic, Just Lock It That Way They Can't.
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cyber, the "shuttup" was in jest and I know people wouldnt go spoiling a book, as it happens you know people die anyway from looking at the front cover.
Dont wanna lock it then no one can post about firefighting books.
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My wife has got me a few books of ebay and I reading one at the moment about a firehouse crew that where involved in the 911 twin towers and its great.. Was written by the battalion chief and its great....
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Not quite a book, but the Firehouse magazines produced monthly are a good read.
Obviously a lot of the American way of doing things does not equate directly to us but there still many excellent articles.
From memory subscription is about $90 a year (worth it for 12 mags).
Check out www.firehouse.com
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My wife has got me a few books of ebay and I reading one at the moment about a firehouse crew that where involved in the 911 twin towers and its great.. Was written by the battalion chief and its great....
Was It
(http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0425186776.01._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_AA240_SH20_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg) (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0425186776/102-8153325-9777701?v=glance&n=283155)
Looks Like A Good Read, Was Looking At Getting It.
When the north tower of the World Trade Center collapsed on September 11, Picciotto, an FDNY battalion commander, was inside it, on a stairwell between the sixth and seventh floors, along with a handful of rescue personnel and one "civilian." This outspoken account tells of that indelible day, and it will shake and inspire readers to the core. The book starts by listing the 343 firefighters who died from the attacks, setting an appropriately grave tone to what follows, which begins as the author heads to work at Engine Co. 76 and Ladder Co. 22 on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Then comes a call on the intercom, and soon he is racing down to the World Trade Center. Arriving, he dodges falling bodies, runs inside and upstairs with a battalion not his own. Early in the book, this straightforward accounting is intercut with flash-forwards to 9:59 a.m., when Picciotto, on the 35th floor of the north tower, experiences the collapse of the south tower not visually, but aurally and in his body ("the building was shaking like an earthquake... but it was the rumble that struck me still with fear. The sheer volume of it. The way it coursed right through me... like a thousand runaway trains speeding toward me"). Picciotto, writing with Paisner (coauthor of autobios by Montel Williams and George Pataki, among others), pulls no punches, naming those who hindered his work and those who helped, taking numerous swipes at what he sees as a fire department bureaucracy whose money pinching puts firefighters at risk. This mouthiness can grate, but it certainly gives the flavor of a man and a department whose heroism became clear to all that day. It's Picciotto and his comrades' courage and willingness to sacrifice that every reader will remember, and honor, upon closing this gritty, heartfelt remembrance of a day of infamy and profound humanity.
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www.amazon.com has the paperback version of 'Last Man Standing: A Firefighter's Story of Survival and Escape from the World Trade Centre' for $7.95US plus freight.
Have bought some IT technical books from Amazon. They are very quick and cheap.
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Yep thast the book and its good reading..... :mrgreen:
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You can get last man down at all good book stores - It has a slightly different cover but exactly the same story. I read it just after 9/11 - very good.
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Yes it is an excellent read - worth the time and once you start hard to put down!
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Read back in January that a book was released about the 2005 West Coast fires. Only thing was that it was a limited print run and all the copies were pre-sold. If anyone turns one up somewhere I would be very interested. There was no mention of a possible re-print.
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A good book is one by Joseph Wambaugh called Fire Lover, about a fire investigater in Southern California with a dark side. True story and a good read with lots on the technical side.
Ashes
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It was also a good movie and one that the yanks did not like....
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When the Bells Drop is available at MFS HQ for $30 a copy.
There are also other items of memorabilia available including WPFG T-Shirts for $20 each
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There are also other items of memorabilia available including WPFG T-Shirts for $20 each
I'll sell ya mine for $18! :-D
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Another excellent read is Red Adair's biography.
Sorry, can't remember the name of it, I read it years ago.
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hey blue,send it down i will give you 20 cents so as I can read it.....
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hey blue,send it down i will give you 20 cents so as I can read it.....
Memorabilia discussed was a t-shirt, guess I can lend it to you for 20c on special occasions. Like the Mt Gambier Races tomorrow - you'd be belle of the ball Blinky :-D
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LOLOLOLOLOL,bugger where did i put my frock.........