Download or read book 38 Years a Detroit Firefighter s Story written by Bob Dombrowski and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2014-05-21 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decorated firefighter and true-blue Detroiter Bob Dombrowski risked life and limb saving lives for as long as he could remember. Born and raised on the west side of Detroit, Bob narrates an engrossing account of his illustrious firefighting career, from being a trial man to retiring as senior chief. He also gives a vivid description of Motor City in its glory days and the events that led to its recent state. See major historical events such as the 1967 Detroit riot and September 11 attacks through his eyes, and be a witness to a truly inspiring thirty-eight-year career.
Download or read book 1818 East Grand written by Frank English and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2021-10-28 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of one Detroit firefighter. It chronicles the period of Detroit from 1973 through 2007, which was the start of his career. Join us during those tremulous days of unbridled chaos and arson throughout the city. Many journalists and photographers from literally around the world came to witness and photograph this period. The author writes about a dark side of the city’s history—a period of suppressing the truth about the men and women of the DFD who worked with personnel shortages, beat-up equipment, and for a time, inadequate fire protective clothing. The author recognizes that much in Detroit and the Detroit Fire Department has changed for the better.
Download or read book Our Firemen written by Charles S. Hathaway and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-10-05 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Our Firemen: A Record of the Faithful and Heroic Men Who Guard the Property and Lives in the City of Detroit, and a Review of the Past, Giving the History of the Fire Department Since the Early Settlement of the City Time was when the fire engine companies in any city were, to a large extent, important social organizations, with more or less of influence in political afiairs, and a general interest and participation in all details of the general welfare. To-day all this is changed. The art of fighting fire is a specialty, and the Fire Department of Detroit is one of the most extensive and one of the best equipped organizations of the kind in existence. Every member of the department is a specialist, whose skill and courage is backed by an absolute singleness of purpose - the protection of lives and property for the citizens, who are their employers. The Detroit Fire Department, exceptionally favored by the presence of an esprit dc corps beyond criticism, has won a record that is without a blemish as to its loyalty, its vigilance and its skill, and with such a record it has won the right to a practical, permanent and sincere testimonial, in the bestowal of which all citizens may participate. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Detroit Fire Department Apparatus History written by Matthew Lee and published by . This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book about the fire engines that served Detroit from horse drawn through 1990.
Download or read book B Shifter A Firefighter s Memoir written by Nick Brunacini and published by Across the Street Prod.. This book was released on 2008-01 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brunacini makes the observation that fire departments more closely resemble cults or severely dysfunctional families than a regular workforce. He brings the reader into the closed world of fire station life and the wide range of personalities that a fire station houses.
Download or read book A Firefighter s Story written by Richard Ehrlich and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-12 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Detroit Fire Department year book 1946 24th Annual Firemen s Field Day August 24 and 25 Briggs Stadium written by Detroit Fire Department and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Firefighters written by Dennis Smith and published by Dell. This book was released on 1989-05 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in paperback, bestselling author Smith gives readers a riveting chronicle of American heroism at its best. "Firefighters, " a powerful collection of stories as told by some of America's most decorated firefighters, is an unforgettable journey through the daily lives of these courageous men and women. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Download or read book A Firefighter s Story written by Richard Ehrlich and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-12 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Detroit Fire Historical Record 1825 1977 written by Turner Publishing and published by Turner. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of the Detroit Fire Department. Includes many fascinating photos.
Download or read book Last Man Down written by Richard Picciotto and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The highest-ranking firefighter to survive the World Trade Center collapse--and the last fireman to escape the devastation after being buried alive for four hours--tells his story. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Download or read book Firefighter War Stories II written by Lew LeBlanc and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-06-07 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Captain from a suburban Fire Department shares over 150 stories from his 30-year career in this collection of anecdotes. It's not all guts and glory and running into burning buildings. There's also downtime, station life, and side jobs. He has seen people at their best and at their worst and everything in between. Just when you think you've seen it all, what looks like a routine call turns out to be anything but routine. Put it all together and you have an interesting study of human nature. Many of these stories will make you laugh, some will make you cry, and others will just make you stop and think. See life through his eyes, that of a career firefighter.This book is not just for firefighters. A glossary ensures that everyone can enjoy the stories, including those who may not be familiar with Fire Department jargon. This is the second book in the "Memories from the Firehouse Years." series.
Download or read book Turnout written by Bill Hall and published by Greenberg Pub. This book was released on 1991 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Detroit City Is the Place to Be written by Mark Binelli and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The fall and maybe rise of Detroit, America's most epic urban failure, from local native and Rolling Stone reporter Mark BinelliOnce America's capitalist dream town, Detroit is our country's greatest urban failure, having fallen the longest and the farthest. But the city's worst crisis yet (and that's saying something) has managed to do the unthinkable: turn the end of days into a laboratory for the future. Urban planners, land speculators, neo-pastoral agriculturalists, and utopian environmentalists--all have been drawn to Detroit's baroquely decaying, nothing-left-to-lose frontier. With an eye for both the darkly absurd and the radically new, Detroit-area native and Rolling Stone writer Mark Binelli has chronicled this convergence. Throughout the city's "museum of neglect"--its swaths of abandoned buildings, its miles of urban prairie--he tracks the signs of blight repurposed, from the school for pregnant teenagers to the killer ex-con turned street patroller, from the organic farming on empty lots to GM's wager on the Volt electric car and the mayor's realignment plan (the most ambitious on record) to move residents of half-empty neighborhoods into a viable, new urban center.Sharp and impassioned, Detroit City Is the Place to Be is alive with the sense of possibility that comes when a city hits rock bottom. Beyond the usual portrait of crime, poverty, and ruin, we glimpse a future Detroit that is smaller, less segregated, greener, economically diverse, and better functioning--what might just be the first post-industrial city of our new century"--
Download or read book Fighting Fire written by Michael L. Cooper and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-03-04 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From colonial times to the modern day, two things have remained constant in American history: the destructive power of fires and the bravery of those who fight them. Fighting Fire! brings to life ten of the deadliest infernos this nation has ever endured: the great fires of Boston, New York, Chicago, Baltimore, and San Francisco, the disasters of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, the General Slocum, and the Cocoanut Grove nightclub, the wildfire of Witch Creek in San Diego County, and the catastrophe of 9/11. Each blaze led to new firefighting techniques and technologies, yet the struggle against fires continues to this day. With historical images and a fast-paced text, this is both an exciting look at firefighting history and a celebration of the human spirit.
Download or read book A Firefighter s Journal written by Robert Marchisello and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-12-08 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A blood-curdling scream pierces the thick black smoke. Somewhere in the darkness, a man is burning to death. Then the screams suddenly stop. Did he jump out of a window? Or did he succumb to the heat and smoke? Those screams haunt Firefighter Robert Marchisello to this day. It's just one of the many revealing stories about battling blazes and numerous other dangers in America's fifth-largest city-home of the nation's first fire company-in this autobiography of his thirty-seven-year career with the Philadelphia Fire Department. During his entire career Marchisello kept a journal detailing his experiences as well as his personal and professional challenges. His work offers rare insights into the unimaginable types of emergencies to which these men and women respond-from decomposing bodies to hazardous chemicals to deadly shootouts. Between calls sit in the firehouse and enjoy the pranks, banter, humor, and camaraderie firefighters share. His vibrant writing lets you experience the adrenalin, the danger and yes, even the laughs of nearly four decades on the firegrounds, in the firehouses and everywhere in between. You'll never look at a passing fire engine the same way!
Download or read book Paczki Day written by Bob Dombrowski and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2019-12-19 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a mix of stories about growing up in Detroit, going to Catholic school, and the Polish people in the fifties and sixties. The author tried his best to present everything in this book accurately despite not having a research staff like the famous writers have. He only had himself, his computer, his memory, a big pile of books, and note cards that he painstakingly used to put this story together. As a fireman, one of the things the author learned was that it takes three things to make a fire: air, fuel, and heat. Remove one, and you can't have a fire. He believes that it takes three things to make everything. Similar to making fire, there are three things that it took to make this book: the city of Detroit, the Catholic Church, and Polish ancestry. If you have one or two or maybe all three of these things, you may like this story. So if your mom wore a babushka, if nostrovia is your toast, if you had a last name that kids made fun of, or if you grew up reading your catechism while looking at church steeples and smokestacks, maybe this book is for you. Bob Dombrowski also wrote, 38 Years: A Detroit Firefighter's Story.
