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Report from Engine Co. 82 is the story of one company of New York firefighters battling unimaginable death and destruction every day. Dennis Smith worked as a firefighter in the South Bronx, New York City, and the graphic detail and gripping prose of this firefighting classic drives the most important, accomplished, terrifying audiobook ever published on firefighting.

He helped save people every day - but he had no idea how to save himself. Jason Sautel had it all. Confident in his abilities and trusted by his fellow firefighters, he was making a name for himself on the streets of Oakland, California. His adrenaline-fueled job even helped him forget the pain of his childhood - until the day he looked into the eyes of a jumper on the Bay Bridge and came face-to-face with a darkness he knew would take him down as well.

Written by 42-plus-year veteran Fire Chief Gary Ludwig and the foreword by Deputy Chief Billy Goldfeder, this book provides 401 ways to help you become a better firefighter.

While I believe the firefighters who choose to lead from the jump seat are the backbone of the fire service, I don’t think they should all stay in the jump seat. This book is written to those who are thinking about promotion or have become the new fire officer looking for guidance. It's full of experiences and lessons learned as I transitioned from being a firefighter to an officer. We need good leadership at the officer level. We need good formal leaders. If you’re already leading, you might actually make a great fire officer. So, what do you say? Is it time for you to the front seat ...

Pride & Ownership holds no punches. Chief Rick Lasky takes a hard look at the fire service and finds it short on the only element that makes it effective: passion. Chief Lasky gives an upfront and honest criticism about the need to reignite the love of the job on every level, from chiefs and on down. Do you have what it takes?

When Chief Joe Pfeifer led his firefighters to investigate an odor of gas in downtown Manhattan on the morning of 9/11, he had no idea that his life was about to change forever. A few moments later, he watched as the first plane crashed into the World Trade Center. Pfeifer, the closest FDNY chief to the scene, spearheaded rescue efforts on one of the darkest days in American history.

The true story behind the events that inspired the major motion picture Only the Brave. A "unique and bracing" (Booklist) first-person account by the sole survivor of Arizona's disastrous 2013 Yarnell Hill Fire, which took the lives of 19 "hotshots" - firefighters trained specifically to battle wildfires. Brendan McDonough was on the verge of becoming a hopeless, inveterate heroin addict when he, for the sake of his young daughter, decided to turn his life around. He enlisted in the Granite Mountain Hotshots, a team of elite firefighters based in Prescott, Arizona.

As a high-ranking officer of the FDNY, John Salka is an expert at both practicing and teaching high-stakes leadership. In First In, Last Out, he explains the department's unique strategies and how they can be adopted by leaders in any field - as he has taught them to organizations around the country. In a tough-talking, no-nonsense style, Salka uses real-world stories to convey leadership imperatives.

My best friend’s brother rejected me because my curves are too big. I gave up on him, but life has thrown obstacles and bad men at me ever since. Now my friend wants to cheer me up and buys us tickets to visit her brother. He’s a firefighter now. And this time around, his wolf thinks he can claim me as his mate. I know what it’s like to be ridiculed for my body. I’ve heard it all before. My thighs are too big, and my stomach is too chunky. I try to forget how he and others treated me, but the rage is building inside of me. He’s acting like nothing happened, even though he rejected...

Immediately after two hijacked jets struck the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, Dennis Smith volunteered in the rescue effort. Having spent his career as both a respected writer and a member of one of the city's busiest firehouses, Smith became determined to use his unique background to tell the story of the disaster and its aftermath with the empathy and understanding that only an insider could bring to it. In this audio memoir, he has collected astonishing first-person testimony.

He bullied me for being voluptuous and unable to shift. He rejected me as his mate and made me the object of public ridicule. Now I’m back in the small town of my youth, and he’s the dragon Alpha. And this time, he seems obsessed with making me his mate and getting me pregnant… The trauma of being an outcast never left my bones. I vowed never to see his beautiful face again, but I have no choice. Wherever I turn, he’s obsessively determined to protect me. However I try to avoid him, his single-minded focus is on possessing me. My clumsy new witch powers cause accidents, and his job ...

"Emmy Award-winning writer Chris Treece delivers the true tale of a young EMT, in a rite of passage story like no other. He brings you along on an exuberant ride and leaves you asking for more." - Dr. Tiff Bombard, Emergency Room Physician Ever wonder what it’s like to be an EMT? Come on author Chris Treece’s ambulance ride. Experience his first frightening call, do CPR on a clammy chest, experience driving an ambulance (it’s fun!), train to be a crew chief, get used to gruesome death, meet the tragic people he could not help and the people who helped him – like the pretty cop who ...

Jack O'Malley is a fireman who is fearless when it comes to facing an inferno. But when an arsonist begins targeting his district, his shift, and his friends, Jack faces the ultimate challenge: protecting the one lady who witnessed the arsonist. The fourth book in the O'Malley series brings back Jack O'Malley from The Truth Seeker in a page-turning thriller.

You are no doubt a busy professional with a lot of things going on! It can be challenging to find the time to study for the firefighter exam. That is why the author James Mcpherson, a firefighting professional, developed the Firefighter Exam Study Guide! This edition is a practice questions edition. It covers all categories on the exam. It contains hundreds of practice test questions. You can listen to or read it wherever life takes you!

Getting rescued by a grumpy firefighter while in the bath wasn’t how I planned my return to this small town. Worse, that firefighter is Frank, my brother’s best friend and the man I’ve been clashing with for years. Frank pulled me from the flames, but now I’m the one tending to his wounds and sharing my home with him. His gruff voice, smoldering looks, and hot body make him impossible to resist. Every accidental touch and heated glare tighten the tension between us, threatening to explode. But there’s more than just heat in the air, an arsonist is setting the town ablaze, and ...

It isn’t hard to live a peaceful life. Especially when you’re living in a small town, or work as a librarian… Or when you’ve sworn off dating completely. All I wanted was to spend the summer with my nose buried in books. I should’ve known that was too much to ask for. It started when the coffee shop went up in flames… And I got saved by the firefighter. Just my luck. It’s not the fact that he’s a dragon shifter that worries me. It’s those broad shoulders, those sexy lips, those dark eyes blazing with temptation…it’s the fact that he’s a player. The last thing I want ...

You are no doubt a busy professional with a lot of things going on! It can be challenging to find the time to study for the firefighter exam. That is why the author James Mcpherson, a firefighting professional, developed the Firefighter Exam Study Guide ! This edition is a complete review edition. It covers all categories on the exam. You can listen to it wherever life takes you!

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 Pink hair and bright patchwork dresses aren’t usually the look I go for in a woman, but when I see Candy the Clown entertaining the kids at the Firemen’s Benevolent Fundraiser, I’m hooked. 
She’s hilariously funny, kindhearted, and her antics between the sheets are as entertaining as her stage performance. 
 We spend the perfect day and one mind-blowing night together. My sides are sore from laughing, and my other bits are sore from, well, did I mention the mind-blowing night? 
 But when she blows me off, it’s anything but funny. It might have been one big act to ...

She’s a firefighter who doesn’t like to lose. He’s a policeman on a winning streak. But can he win her heart? Riley 
I’m the best basketball player on the Kings County Fire Department team. I don’t like to lose and especially not to the Kings County Police Department. But when Rohan pushes me on the court and we lose the basketball league championship, I’m furious. 
He’s the most arrogant and cocky man I’ve ever met. So why does my heart flutter every time I see him?
 If he thinks he’s going to win me over, he can think again.

 Rohan 
 I’ve always had a ...

Having a summer picnic in the woods in your mid-life can be fun… That is, until the woods catch fire. I should have known moving to this small town was huge mistake. I wasn’t expecting to get caught in a forest fire. I certainly wasn’t expecting the firefighter who came to my rescue to be the same man who’d reduced my heart to ashes years ago. Wouldn’t you believe it, we’re stranded in the woods. I can’t stand this sizzling dragon shifter. Actually, I can’t stand the way he makes me feel. Seeing him again has awakened a fire in me. I’ve got to tame these delicious flames...