Review: A tribute to a real-life hero
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 9, 2014
According to the author, the children's story is based on the life of Danny Hayat, an Israeli firefighter who died while saving other people's lives in a huge fire. In the story, young Danny visited a fire station when he was five years old and decided then that he wanted to be a firefighter when he grew up. And so he did. His story is told through text and pictures. The pictures were hand-drawn by elementary school children in Danny's home town of Afula, Israel. It's an inspirational story of a real-life hero who died while putting his own life in harm's way trying to save others.Curious about the facts of the fire, I looked it up and learned that Danny died while trying to save others in a deadly forest fire that started on Mount Carmel in northern Israel, just south of Haifa. The fire began on December 2, 2010, and spread quickly, consuming much of the forest covering the region. The fire claimed 44 lives, making it the deadliest in Israeli history. Danny Hayat, 35 years old, left behind a wife and two children, and his wife was expecting their third child.