Firefighting


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
My Lost Brothers: The Untold Story by the Yarnell Hill Fire's Lone Survivor
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
Notes from the Firehouse by D.E. McCourtFire on the Mountain by John N. MacleanHotshot by River SelbyFire Season by Philip ConnorsAmerican Fire by Monica Hesse
Fire, Fire: Nonfiction
137 books — 32 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
87 books — 148 voters


Our department takes 1,120 calls every day. Do you know how many of the calls the public expects perfection on? 1,120. Nobody calls the fire department and says, 'Send me two dumb-ass firemen in a pickup truck.' In three minutes they want five brain-surgeon decathlon champions to come and solve all their problems. ...more
John Eversole

Jodi Picoult
When I was little I bragged about my firefighting father: my father would go to heaven, because if he went to hell he would put out all the fires
Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

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