American Firefighter
American Firefighter

Author: Paul Mobley

Publisher: Rizzoli Publications

Published: 2017-10-10

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 1599621371

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FOREWORD INDIES Book of the Year Awards — 2017 SILVER Winner for Photography A celebration of and tribute to our nation’s courageous firefighters and first responders. Paul Mobley has taken his camera on the road again to photograph America’s bravest citizens. In this collection of intimate and powerful photographic portraits, we get a glimpse of what it means to answer the call and run toward danger. Stunning portraits of these brave men and women—chief fire officers, company and wildland crew leaders, instructors, and line-firefighters—are accompanied by firsthand accounts of those who put it all on the line, as well as stories of those firefighters who have made the greatest sacrifice of all. American Firefighter contains the real-life stories of firefighters, from the most rural volunteers to the most sophisticated and technologically advanced metropolitan departments, and it also profiles the children and grandchildren of firefighters who have been lost in the line of duty as they honor and pursue a family legacy. This book is an excellent gift for this nation’s 1.4 million firefighters and their families, for those just coming to the profession, or for any American who is intrigued to learn more about these everyday heroes.

Molly, by Golly!
Molly, by Golly!

Author: Dianne Ochiltree

Publisher: Astra Publishing House

Published: 2020-09-22

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13: 1635924375

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Here is the story of Molly Williams, an African American cook for New York City's Fire Company 11 who is considered to be the first known female firefighter in U.S. history. New York City’s Fire Company Number 11 is in trouble. A deadly snowstorm is blowing, and many of the volunteers are sick in bed. When the fire alarm sounds, who will answer the call? Who will save the neighborhood? Molly Williams, the company’s cook, for one! Clapping a weathered leather helmet on her head, strapping spatterdashes over her woolen leggings, and pulling on heavy work gloves —it’s Molly, by golly, to the rescue. Young readers will enjoy plucky Molly Williams’s legendary adventure as they learn how fires were fought in the early 1800s.

Fireman Down
Fireman Down

Author: Lee Shargel

Publisher: Archway Publishing

Published: 2021-09

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 9781665710787

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It is the early 1980s when Artie and Angela Reese and their children move into their dream home in the Stoneybrook community in Charlotte, North Carolina, with the hope that the fears and prejudice that once overshadowed their African American family have melted away. Artie is now a lieutenant in the Charlotte Fire Department and Angela is an accountant for a banking firm. But as they settle in, no one has any idea of the everlasting effect that Artie and his family will soon have on the community and entire city. Unfortunately, Artie knows his new assignment at University Station is not going to be easy. The fire station houses a den of redneck racists who are determined to make his life miserable. Although he knows he will be the only black man there, he still needs to command respect and authority from his brothers in uniform. As he rescues victims in burning buildings that he is certain are racist, Artie transforms into a courageous hero who does not see color-only lives to be saved-a decision that seals his fate and determines his legacy. Fireman Down is the story of an African American firefighter who bravely wears his uniform during a time of racial unrest in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Black Firefighters and the FDNY
Black Firefighters and the FDNY

Author: David Goldberg

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2017-10-23

Total Pages: 422

ISBN-13: 1469633639

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For many African Americans, getting a public sector job has historically been one of the few paths to the financial stability of the middle class, and in New York City, few such jobs were as sought-after as positions in the fire department (FDNY). For over a century, generations of Black New Yorkers have fought to gain access to and equal opportunity within the FDNY. Tracing this struggle for jobs and justice from 1898 to the present, David Goldberg details the ways each generation of firefighters confronted overt and institutionalized racism. An important chapter in the histories of both Black social movements and independent workplace organizing, this book demonstrates how Black firefighters in New York helped to create affirmative action from the "bottom up," while simultaneously revealing how white resistance to these efforts shaped white working-class conservatism and myths of American meritocracy. Full of colorful characters and rousing stories drawn from oral histories, discrimination suits, and the archives of the Vulcan Society (the fraternal society of Black firefighters in New York), this book sheds new light on the impact of Black firefighters in the fight for civil rights.

Mose the Fireman
Mose the Fireman

Author: Eric Metaxas

Publisher: ABDO

Published: 2004-09

Total Pages: 44

ISBN-13: 9781591977667

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Relates the tall tale adventures of Mose Humphries, a nineteenth-century fireman in New York City.

Last Man Down
Last Man Down

Author: Richard Picciotto

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2003-05-06

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1101220759

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A first responder’s harrowing account of 9/11—the inspirational true story of an American hero who gave nearly everything for others during one of New York City’s darkest hours. On September 11, 2001, FDNY Battalion Chief Richard “Pitch” Picciotto answered the call heard around the world. In minutes, he was at Ground Zero of the worst terrorist attack on American soil, as the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center began to burn—and then to buckle. A veteran of the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, Picciotto was eerily familiar with the inside of the North Tower. And it was there that he concentrated his rescue efforts. It was in its smoky stairwells where he heard and felt the South Tower collapse. He made the call for firemen and rescue workers to evacuate, while he stayed behind with a skeleton team of men to help evacuate a group of disabled and infirm civilians. And it was in the rubble of the North Tower where Picciotto found himself buried—for more than four hours after the building’s collapse.

Fire Engineering's Study Guide for Firefighter I and II
Fire Engineering's Study Guide for Firefighter I and II

Author: Anthony Avillo

Publisher: Fire Engineering Books

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 355

ISBN-13: 1593701853

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In the fire service, information is critical to firefighter safety and efficiency. Fire Engineering's Study Guide for Firefighter I and II will provide the student with a comprehensive review of the material presented in each chapter of Fire Engineering's Handbook, providing a further check on how well the student absorbed the material. The Study Guide's multiple-choice questions provide both direct knowledge and situational application of the material. It is suggested that the student complete the Study Guide chapter-by-chapter, both before reading the Handbook as a pre-test and after reading the Handbook as an informational comprehension check. Used properly, Fire Engineering's Study Guide will reinforce the information learned and enhance the effectiveness of the educational package. Features: * Multiple-choice, short-answer, and true-or-false questions for each chapter of the Handbook * Answers at the end of each chapter * Corresponding page numbers to each answer in the Handbook

The Healthy Firehouse Cookbook
The Healthy Firehouse Cookbook

Author: Joseph T. Bonanno

Publisher: William Morrow

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780688127558

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A New York City firefighter presents recipes for meals that are satisfying and promote good health. Includes lowfat culinary contributions from firefighters around the country.