Download or read book Fireman s Tired Eyes written by Rob Evans and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Series description:From joining the Service to learning about the harsh realities of life, gaining promotion and earning respect from peers, to giving the best we can for others in need. In all this time, losing hours of sleep and disrupted meals, dropping everything at a moments notice and absorbing so much from attending other people's life changing incidents. A series of books to allow you to see what Emergency Service personnel are exposed to and how it truly affects us. We can only hide it for so long from loved ones and our families. So, I write my findings from my journey in a bid to help others identify and notice signs and symptoms and offer simple ways to deal with it in their everyday challenges. We need to be talking more openly about mental health issues and not be afraid to ask for professional help. When It's OK, to NOT be OK ......thank you for joining me. I hope you have a better insight of Fire Service life. Consider using professionals and to break the stigma of being in therapy. This is about awareness and helping each other. To recap: This is based on my journey and my experiences alone. I started my blog page when we were forced into Lockdown here in France March 2020, I now had time on my hands and thoughts and feelings and emotions were no longer suppressed by daily life. I was now being forced to face stuff I had squashed down during my service. I am very aware of 'triggers', so I hope by reading my journey you don't react to any of this. If you do, it's ok. Take a moment and let it out. It's part of the healing process. (I have scaled down my details to incidents deliberately.) I am not a Therapist or Counsellor, nor wish to be. I have studied a course on PTSD, CBT for PTSD and REBT for PTSD, but am no way advocating any skills. I've done this merely to help understand what I've experienced and in doing so be more able to write about it and possibly in an attempt to potentially help others. I am not here for sympathy, praise or credit. This is about giving back and helping. My journey is nothing compared to so many others out there dealing with the troubles of the world. Compassion comes in many forms and acts of random kindness is the purest. But what we do forget is the most important of all....... Be here for you and help yourself too. "So many suffer in silence unnecessarily" In my career, I've always been there for everyone else first. Suppressed my feelings and emotions and even missed events I cannot ever reclaim. Things like kids and families birthday's or Xmas / NY celebrations. On duty or going or coming off duty. Time events that cannot be recaptured. Shift patterns of Public Servants are not family-friendly. Life now, for me, out of the job is very different. No longer on a schedule and time scale. It has allowed me time to reflect and ponder on what I've witnessed, withstood and achieved. Stopping from a rapid pace of life has in turn allowed so much to show itself. Stuff that was shoved down and forgotten, only to fester, consciously or sub-consciously. I hope I can highlight some signs and symptoms. It may allow you to help yourselves and your families through any troubling times. Breaking the silence on mental and emotional health. Reacting to traumatic events isn't wrong, it's a normal response to something that is not normal. We are all in this together facing some many and there is always an outreaching hand if needed.A healing process comes from within.................your journey, your pace.

Download or read book Blaze of Love A Contemporary Fireman Western Romance Boxset written by Erin Wright and published by Wright Hot Sexy Cowboys. This book was released on 2020-03-26 with total page 991 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enjoy this steamy firemen series at a terrific discount! Blaze of Love is the complete box set of the sexy Firefighters of Long Valley Romance series. Come on down to small town Idaho, where the firemen are damn fine… Flames of Love (Book 1) – Jaxson’s not interested in love; his priority is caring for his two small boys, and being fire chief of Sawyer. Everything changes the day he catches sight of Sugar. He wants her all to himself – a no-strings arrangement that won’t break what’s left of his heart. But love’s as unpredictable as fire… Inferno of Love (Book 2) – Georgia has spent a lot of years – roughly 26 of them – pretending Moose wasn’t the finest man in town. For the record, she barely notices how his slow, sultry smile makes her knees weak, and always ignores the close fit of his faded jeans. But when she gets trapped in the flames of a wildfire out in the hills of Long Valley, Moose appears amidst the smoke, ready to walk through fire. For her… Fire and Love (Book 3) – Levi has wanted Tenny for forever. Too bad the town’s beauty queen is waaay out of his league. While she grew up with money, he grew up dirt poor. While she’s a daddy’s girl, his father’s a mean drunk with a vicious back-hand. Levi should just forget about the high-class blonde, but she has a secret that changes everything. When the ghosts of the past return, he must choose between love…or betrayal. Burned by Love (Book 4) – Firefighter Troy doesn't need much out of life. Hanging out with his fellow firefighters, a good beer, and...well, one night with a beautiful, feisty woman couldn't hurt, right? But city girl Penny is trouble and he knows it. Big trouble. He also can't get enough of her. Sparks fly and their love ignites, but what if the heat between them is too hot to handle? Blaze of Love is the complete bundle of the Firefighters of Long Valley Romance series. For fans of Cynthia D’Alba, Jillian Neal, or Miranda Lawson, this is a HOT romantic box set with four guaranteed happily ever afters. It does contain some strong language and oh my, sexy times. Enjoy!

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Download or read book Burnt written by Clare Frank and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2023-05-23 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Burnt is a captivating and “evocative” (Erin Brockovich) memoir of trailblazing and firefighting from California’s first—and only—female chief of fire protection, a pioneering woman in a male-dominated field. Burnt is a book about finding your calling, even if it’s an unexpected one. It’s about finding your home, even if you aren’t immediately welcomed. And it’s about reaching the top and making a difference, even if you don’t look like you fit in. When Clare Frank was 17 years old, she became a firefighter in Northern California. Clare was five-foot-two and officially too young to join the service—she left her birthdate blank on her paperwork, hoping no one would notice. And she didn’t look like her peers, who sported an Adam’s apple and a mustache. But her brother was a firefighter and loved it, so she thought she’d try it out, too. Very soon, she knew she had found her calling. Burnt is Frank’s inspiring, richly detailed, and open-hearted account of an extraordinary life in fire. It chronicles the transformation of a young adult determined to prove her mettle into a scarred and sensitive veteran, grappling with the weight of her duties as chief of fire protection—one of the highest-ranking women in Cal Fire history—while record-setting fires engulf her home state. Mentors and mediocre managers, funerals and scandal, pickup basketball, car crashes, and always fire—no one has written about this world, from this perspective, like Clare Frank. She masterfully mixes irreverence and awe, taking readers inside firehouses, on daily calls, and along to gigantic wildfires where antics and dark humor balance terrifying risk, trauma, and a sense of almost holy responsibility. Burnt: A Memoir of Fighting Fire is an unforgettable memoir from an American original.

Download or read book Both Sides of the Fire Line written by Bobbie Scopa and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2022-09-06 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bobbie Scopa spent close to five decades working through nearly every challenge a firefighter can face. Scopa was a strike team leader for the Dude Fire in 1990, where six firefighters were tragically killed, and she served at Ground Zero immediately after 9/11. She's worked mountain rescues, city fires, mega-wildfires, and everything in between. While battling conditions and harsh flames on the outside, she also found herself waging a tougher battle on the inside. Scopa was torn between how to maintain the faÇade everyone expected of her and whether to live as her true self. "A hero firefighter can't possibly be transgender, right?" she thought. Both Sides of the Fire Line is Bobbie Scopa's uplifting memoir of bravely facing the heat of fierce challenges, professionally and personally.

Download or read book Fancy Af Cocktails written by Ariana Madix and published by Harvest. This book was released on 2019 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Trashy and classy cocktails by the ... Vanderpump Rules couple"--

Download or read book Level Up Your Life written by Steve Kamb and published by Rodale Books. This book was released on 2016-01-12 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 5 years, Steve Kamb has transformed himself from wanna-be daydreamer into a real-life superhero and actually turned his life into a gigantic video game: flying stunt planes in New Zealand, gambling in a tuxedo at the Casino de Monte-Carlo, and even finding Nemo on the Great Barrier Reef. To help him accomplish all of these goals, he built a system that allowed him to complete quests, take on boss battles, earn experience points, and literally level up his life. If you have always dreamed of adventure and growth but can’t seem to leave your hobbit-hole, Level Up Your Life is for you. Kamb will teach you exactly how to use your favorite video games, books, and movies as inspiration for adventure rather than an escape from the grind of everyday life. Hundreds of thousands of everyday Joes and Jills have joined Steve’s Rebellion through his popular website, NerdFitness.com, and leveled up their lives—losing weight, getting stronger, and living better. In Level Up Your Life, you’ll meet more than a dozen of these members of The Rebellion: men and women, young and old, single and married, from all walks of life who have created superhero versions of themselves to live adventurously and happily. Within this guide, you’ll follow in their footsteps and learn exactly how to: • Create your own “Alter Ego” with real-life super powers • Build your own Epic Quest List, broken into categories and difficulty levels • Hack your productivity habits to start making progress • Train your body for any adventure • Build in rewards and accountability that will actually motivate you to succeed • Travel the world freely (and cheaply) • Recruit the right allies to your side and find powerful mentors for guidance Adventure is out there, and the world needs more heroes. Will you heed the call?

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Download or read book The Italian Job The Kathryn Freeman Romcom Collection Book 6 written by Kathryn Freeman and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2022-05-06 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dream job. Dream house. Fake fiancé.

Download or read book Detroit written by Charlie LeDuff and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-01-28 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An explosive exposé of America’s lost prosperity by Pulitzer Prize­–winning journalist Charlie LeDuff “One cannot read Mr. LeDuff's amalgam of memoir and reportage and not be shaken by the cold eye he casts on hard truths . . . A little gonzo, a little gumshoe, some gawker, some good-Samaritan—it is hard to ignore reporting like Mr. LeDuff's.” —The Wall Street Journal “Pultizer-Prize-winning journalist LeDuff . . . writes with honesty and compassion about a city that’s destroying itself–and breaking his heart.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) “A book full of both literary grace and hard-won world-weariness.” —Kirkus Back in his broken hometown, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Charlie LeDuff searches the ruins of Detroit for clues to his family’s troubled past. Having led us on the way up, Detroit now seems to be leading us on the way down. Once the richest city in America, Detroit is now the nation’s poorest. Once the vanguard of America’s machine age—mass-production, blue-collar jobs, and automobiles—Detroit is now America’s capital for unemployment, illiteracy, dropouts, and foreclosures. With the steel-eyed reportage that has become his trademark, and the righteous indignation only a native son possesses, LeDuff sets out to uncover what destroyed his city. He beats on the doors of union bosses and homeless squatters, powerful businessmen and struggling homeowners and the ordinary people holding the city together by sheer determination. Detroit: An American Autopsy is an unbelievable story of a hard town in a rough time filled with some of the strangest and strongest people our country has to offer.

Download or read book A Fire Story written by Brian Fies and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The award-winning author and illustrator presents a personal account of the Northern California wildfires of 2017 in this moving graphic memoir. On October 9th, 2017, wildfires burned through Northern California, resulting in forty-four fatalities and the destruction of thousands of homes. In A Fire Story, Brian Fies shares an unflinching account of this tragedy as he and his wife experienced it—including losing their house and every possession that didn’t fit in their car. As the fires continued to burn through the area, Brian pulled together A Fire Story and posted it online. It immediately went viral. He later expanded the webcomic to include environmental insight and the fire stories of his neighbors. A Fire Story is a candid testimony of the wildfires that left homes destroyed, families broken, and a community determined to rebuild. This updated and expanded edition includes thirty-two pages of all-new material, extending the story past the events of the hardcover edition to include updates on the rebuilding, wrestling with insurance, wrangling with contractors, the management of sometimes volatile emotions, and the threats of yet another wildfire.

Download or read book Pentagon 9 11 written by Alfred Goldberg and published by Office of the Secretary, Historical Offi. This book was released on 2007-09-05 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most comprehensive account to date of the 9/11 attack on the Pentagon and aftermath, this volume includes unprecedented details on the impact on the Pentagon building and personnel and the scope of the rescue, recovery, and caregiving effort. It features 32 pages of photographs and more than a dozen diagrams and illustrations not previously available.

Download or read book Why People Die by Suicide written by Thomas Joiner and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the wake of a suicide, the most troubling questions are invariably the most difficult to answer: How could we have known? What could we have done? And always, unremittingly: Why? Written by a clinical psychologist whose own life has been touched by suicide, this book offers the clearest account ever given of why some people choose to die. Drawing on extensive clinical and epidemiological evidence, as well as personal experience, Thomas Joiner brings a comprehensive understanding to seemingly incomprehensible behavior. Among the many people who have considered, attempted, or died by suicide, he finds three factors that mark those most at risk of death: the feeling of being a burden on loved ones; the sense of isolation; and, chillingly, the learned ability to hurt oneself. Joiner tests his theory against diverse facts taken from clinical anecdotes, history, literature, popular culture, anthropology, epidemiology, genetics, and neurobiology--facts about suicide rates among men and women; white and African-American men; anorexics, athletes, prostitutes, and physicians; members of cults, sports fans, and citizens of nations in crisis. The result is the most coherent and persuasive explanation ever given of why and how people overcome life's strongest instinct, self-preservation. Joiner's is a work that makes sense of the bewildering array of statistics and stories surrounding suicidal behavior; at the same time, it offers insight, guidance, and essential information to clinicians, scientists, and health practitioners, and to anyone whose life has been affected by suicide.

Download or read book Fire on the Mountain written by Dale A. Johnson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-08-28 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography of experiences by an American living in Southeast Turkey and Northern Iraq during and after the first Gulf War.

Download or read book Fahrenheit 451 written by Ray Bradbury and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2003-09-23 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the future when "firemen" burn books forbidden by the totalitarian "brave new world" regime.

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