Big Books of 2026
Genres

Firefighting


Firefighting Books

Report from Engine Co. 82
The Last Men Out: Life on the Edge at Rescue 2 Firehouse
Young Men and Fire
First In, Last Out: Leadership Lessons from the New York Fire Department
Smokejumper: A Memoir by One of America's Most Select Airborne Firefighters
Working Fire: The Making of a Fireman
3000 Degrees: The True Story of a Deadly Fire and the Men Who Fought It
Ordinary Heroes: A Memoir of 9/11
Report from Ground Zero
Strong of Heart: Life and Death in the Fire Department of New York
B-Shifter: A Firefighter's Memoir
The Fire Line: The Story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots
The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America
San Francisco Is Burning: The Untold Story of the 1906 Earthquake and Fires
My Lost Brothers: The Untold Story by the Yarnell Hill Fire's Lone Survivor
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Lists

Chasing Fire by Nora RobertsThings You Save in a Fire by Katherine CenterFirestorm by Iris JohansenSpontaneous Combustion by Bobby HutchinsonSoot Angel by M.A. Petterson
Female Firefighters/Smokejumpers/etc in Fiction
108 books — 8 voters
Notes from the Firehouse by D.E. McCourtFire on the Mountain by John N. MacleanFire Season by Philip ConnorsAmerican Fire by Monica HesseSmokejumper by Jason A. Ramos
Fire, Fire: Nonfiction
135 books — 27 voters

The Night Belongs to Fireman by Jennifer BernardThe Fireman Who Loved Me by Jennifer BernardHow to Tame a Wild Fireman by Jennifer BernardPoor Little Daddy's Girl by Normandie AllemanSex and the Single Fireman by Jennifer Bernard
Firefighter Books
86 books — 146 voters

Quotes Tagged “Firefighting”

Tim O. Casey
“ Every Hero Becomes a Bore at last." Ralph Waldo Emerson ...more ”
― Tim O. Casey
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“ The first few weeks of any firefighter's career are an impatient wait to start living the dream, and mine were no different. This was back before I understood that it was also a job, that there would be moments of frustration and grief, back when it was a fantasy that had come true but hadn't stopped being a fantasy yet. ...more ”
― Zac Unger, Working Fire: The Making of a Fireman
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Videos Tagged “Firefighting”

Engine 24: Fire Stories
Engine 24: Fire Stories
Through the Fire by Shawn Grady: Book Trailer
Through the Fire by Shawn Grady: Book Trailer
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