A Firefighter's Story
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Published: June 8, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9781425977306
Subjects: General; Biography & Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography
First sentence: So there I was. Just a few weeks short of my twentieth birthday and back in my adopted home town of Columbus, Ohio.  It was late in the month of March 1959, and I had just received my honorable discharge from the U.S. Army...
Description: In this book, the third installment of his memoir trilogy, the author tells us about his twenty-eight year career as a front line firefighter, Lieutenant and Battalion Chief with the Columbus, Ohio Fire Department.
Table of contents: title: GET A JOB; title: HUSBAND, FATHER AND FIREFIGHTER; title: THE NEW KID AT ELEVENS; title: MY FIRST NIGHT ON DUTY; title: SOME EARLY FIRE MEMORIES; title: INSPECTIONS, TRANSFERS AND TRADES; title: MORE FIREFIGHTING MEMORIES; title: A FIRE CAPTAIN IS LOST; title: TRANSFER TO STATION TWO; title: THE OHIO PENITENTIARY FIRE; title: MORE STATION TWO FIRES; title: PROMOTIONAL EXAMS AND OFF DUTY JOBS; title: THE EAST SIDE RIOTS; title: TRANSFER TO ENGINE 7; title: STUDENT RIOTS AT O.S.U.; title: STATION 1 AND THE PENN CENTRAL FIRE; title: STATION 18 AND ANOTHER MEMORABLE FIRE; title: FIRE LIEUTENANT AT  RECRUIT STATION 13; title: MORE STATION 13 MEMORIES; title: I PUT MY FIREFIGHTING GEAR AWAY FOR AWHILE; title: BATTALION CHIEF; title: BATTALION FOUR MEMORIES; title: MORE BATTALION FOUR MEMORIES; title: TRANSFER TO BATTALION ONE; title: BATTALION ONE MEMORIES; title: BACK TO THE BRIAR PATCH; title: BATTALION THREE FIRES, DRUG BUSTS AND FATALITIES; title: MORE BATTALION THREE MEMORIES; title: SOME WORKING FIRES AND MULTIPLE ALARMS; title: SOME DRIVING MISHAPS AND A BIZARRE ENCOUNTER; title: A VETERAN FIREFIGHTER'S LAST ALARM; title: TIME TO MOVE ON