Just as he did in The Twelfth Hour, his first Wes Causey novel, Paul Hashagen brings his unique appreciation of New York City's history and his meticulous attention to the details of actual firegrounds to Fire of God, a fast-paced and compelling novel that brings New York City's past into America's present in extremely important ways.
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A Distant Fire: No fire department in the world has a greater reputation for heroism than the FDNY. No fire department has a richer, stronger tradition of courage and daring in its members' efforts to protect the people they serve from the ravages of fire. Paul Hashagen of FDNY's Rescue 1 brings the exciting history and legendary figures of FDNY's past to the present for all of us to enjoy in his classic A Distant Fire.
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Harry Ahearn's Fire Factory is located at East 114th Street and Fifth Avenue, in New York City's Harlem. Built during a period of fiscal austerity, the two-story brick structure with dull white-washed sides is hardly distinctive; it seldom rates a second glance from passersby. But the firefighters of Engine 58 and Ladder 26, the men of the Fire Factory, are quite another story.
The crew of The Fire Factory accepts all their challenges and risks with friendship and laughter, with commitment and love -- even when the safety rope breaks and tragedy strikes. Harry Ahearns The Fire Factory is still a moving tribute to professionals who confront unequaled peril with unsurpassed courage each and every day.
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hardcover 186 pages
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Lights & Sirens follows Pat Burns' career from a raw and
inexperienced "candidate" firefighter to Cause and Origin Investigator,
and follows his rise through the ranks as he crawls the smoke-filled
hallways of Chicago's tough West Side. Later Pat's talents as a superb
investigator and respected leader were tapped to help reorganize the new
Office of Fire Investigation. Flames and arsonists, life and death,
humor and tragedy were all part of Pat's career, and he chronicles them
all in Lights & Sirens. As Pat would say, "There's no B.S. in
this book! This stuff all really happened."
The time is
1918.
American troops are fighting in Europe, but German
saboteurs have brought the war to the streets of New York City. Craig von Bell is a German agent trained
to disrupt,
damage or destroy American warships, supply ships, munitions warehouses
- any
and all materiel and supplies heading to Europe from New
York
to help
defeat Germany. His weapon of choice is arson.
Wes Causey,
one of the FDNY's few arson investigators, knows the arson is not
random; he knows that the fires are not for profit or pleasure; he knows
the
fires are the work of a German saboteur who will eventually strike
terror into
the hearts and souls of the people of New York City.
Dave
Houseal worked in every firehouse and on every platoon and almost on
every
company of the Harrisburg Fire Department during his almost thirty year
firefighting career before he retired in 2003.
In We Got 'Em
on Point, Dave once again
brings his deep sense of humor to his chronicles of the many characters
he's
met on the job -- outrageously funny firefighters and stupendously
stupid and
unthinking citizens. He brings his meticulous historian's eye for detail
to his
re-creations of the dangers and hazards of the fireground. He brings a
true
collector's insight into his tales of apparatus loved and lost -- and a
couple
of pieces that were found and saved.
Not very long ago, the Bronx was burning. Day
after
day, night after night, firefighters responded to vacant and occupied
five and
six story apartment buildings, rows of attached wood-frame houses,
single story
commercial buildings, and anything else that greedy and unscrupulous
arsonists
could set on fire. Taking in up to 1,000 runs in a month, these men
waged a
desperate fight to save life and property with limited resources and
manpower,
putting their lives on the line to maintain some degree of order during
one of
our nation's most chaotic and destructive periods. It was unprecedented.
It was
exceptional. It was . . . The Usual.
THE DONNOVANS By Harry Ahearn.
$24.95 A story of an FDNY family, the saga of a famed firehouse, and a
reflection on the FDNY from the very beginnings of the New York City
Fire Department from when it was first organized and on through the
early 1990's. Harry Ahearn'sGhetto Firefighter and The Fire Factory were two of the most popular fire books every published. They are classics in the field. Now The Donnovans, his new novel, continues Harry's saga of FDNY's fabled Fire Factory.
It begins with Patrick Donnovan, a young man who escaped the brutal
poverty of famine plagued Ireland for the promise of America. This is a book
you will enjoy again and again.
Dave Houseal's grandfather worked his way up through the ranks to become Fire Chief of the Harrisburg Fire Department. His father was an officer of the neighboring Progress Fire Company for many years and Fire Chief of the department for over a decade. Harrisburg is not a huge city. It is not New York or Boston, Philly or Baltimore. But it is a good-sized city, and being the capital of Pennsylvania means its population nearly triples each and every day. And Harrisburg is an old city -- abandoned factories, decaying warehouses, hundreds of crumbling and vacant row-houses, high-rise fires, church fires, arson and riots. And let's not forget reduced manpower and antiquated equipment thanks to the slash and burn budget policies of successive political hacks. $24.95
Bill Noonan has been a member of the Boston Fire Department since 1971. He was appointed Department Photographer in 1975 and Chief Photographer in 1983. All those years of experience mean that when it comes to capturing the intense spectacle and danger of the fireground, Bill Noonan is simply one of the absolute best photographers in America. Almost two hundred of Billy's most spectacular shots from the early 1990s to early 2005 are included in this remarkable collection. Flames & Faces truly captures the courage, dedication, exuberance, pain, commitment, humor and camaraderie of Boston jakes. And although its focus is on the members of the Boston Fire Department and fire fighters from neighboring cities and towns, Flames & Faces is finally a wonderful tribute to members of the fire service everywhere and will be a great addition to your collection.
In George Hall's Ring of Fire, the San Francisco fire department is besieged by the worst wave of arson to hit an American city since a group of whack jobs tried to burn down Boston back in 1982-83. And guess what? The mayor's decided it's the perfect time to save some money by closing some fire companies and laying off some jakes! Who'd ever think something like that could happen?
Igniter (a Henry Hyde Mystery) by Charles D. Taylor $19.95
Meet Henry Hyde - the best arson investigator the Boston Fire Department has. He loves Boston and someone is trying to burn down his town. Henry is nervous about solving the case, but mostly, he's angry. . .especially when Boston firefighters start dying. You will not want to pass by a book that Robert Parker calls "a first rate work of fiction by a powerful new voice. Charles Taylor know how it's done." We agree, and we're sure you will too.
In Facing the Flames, Connie O'Brien continues the chronicle of the Cambridge, MA Fire Department that he began in his widely acclaimed first book, Where It Was Hot. In a city where the Harvard elite rub shoulders with the downtrodden, where glass towers and ramshackle triple deckers sit side by side, there are fire stories of every caliber. And Connie O'Brien knows how to tell them.
Bill Noonan's collection of classic black and white photographs from the 1940's through the 1960's highlights the exceptional professionalism of Boston's firefighters and well as the extreme conditions under which Boston's jakes used to work. A terrific gift for those interested in classic fire photography.
