Report from Ground Zero by Dennis Smith (2003-03-03)

Dennis Smith

Plume Books

Barrington Moore: Violence, Morality and Political Change [Contemporary Social Theory: Theoretical Traditions in the Social Sciences Series]

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

The Macmillan Press Ltd.

The Chicago school: A liberal critique of capitalism (Contemporary social theory. Theoretical traditions in the social sciences)

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Naked Feet of Nicaragua

Nicholas Cole and

Travel

Hodder & Stoughton Religious Division

Aran Islands: A Personal Journey

Europe

DOUBLEDAY

A Song for Mary: An Irish-American Memory

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Oxmoor House

An old fire engine, unused for many years, is pressed into service once again during the biggest fire the city has ever seen.

The little fire engine (that saved the city)

Windmill Books/Simon & Schuster

Report from Engine Co. 82

<p>Dennis Smith is a member of the busiest engine company in New York, one that averages 700 call a month. His firehouse is in the South Bronx, a community with more homicides, more drug traffic, and more prostitution per square mile than anywhere else in the United States. In Report From Engine Co. 82, Smith recreates a fireman's life as it has never before appeared in print. With him you climb the ladders into burning buildings, crawl Indian-fashion down treacherous halls through poisonous black smoke, knowing that the ceiling may fall or the floor collapse or a hidden explosive ignite. Alongside him, you watch friends die - and see lives saved with bare and blistered hands. Firemen never know what they'll meet when they respond to an alarm - a fire, a family quarrel, a hold-up, a homicide. Whatever the emergency, the fireman is prepared to handle it.</p>

Report From Engine Co. 82

Children's Books

Pocket_Books

This work narrates the dramas and cameraderie of firefighters working in the South Bronx in the 1960s and 1970s. Engine Company 82 was the busiest fire company in the most desperate neighbourhoods of America's largest city and Dennis Smith tells of the horrors and heroism of a firefighter's life.

Regional U.S.

Flamingo

<p>"This could be the night" reads the sign above the [South Bronx] firehouse door.  And, indeed, with the introspection of a man prepared to face death with every alarm bell, Dennis Smith turns his observant eye upon the lives he unflinchingly places before his own.  From his bawdy and brave fellow firefighters, to the hopeful, hateful, beautiful, and beleaguered residents of the poverty-stricken district where he works, this is the compelling human story of the most brutalizing - and most rewarding - profession in the country.  Now reissued with a new introduction by the author, "Report from Engine Co. 82" is a tense, violent, poignantly written account from the front lines...where fire illuminates a battered city and heroes are made of ordinary men.</p>

Report from Engine Co. 82: The American Firefighting Classic

Warner Books, Inc.

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