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Firefighting Books
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Report from Engine Co. 82 (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as firefighting)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,784 ratings — published 1972
The Last Men Out: Life on the Edge at Rescue 2 Firehouse (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as firefighting)
avg rating 4.51 — 459 ratings — published 2004
Young Men and Fire (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as firefighting)
avg rating 4.03 — 7,269 ratings — published 1992
First In, Last Out: Leadership Lessons from the New York Fire Department (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as firefighting)
avg rating 4.10 — 334 ratings — published 2004
Smokejumper: A Memoir by One of America's Most Select Airborne Firefighters (ebook)
by (shelved 6 times as firefighting)
avg rating 3.88 — 2,248 ratings — published 2014
Working Fire: The Making of a Fireman (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as firefighting)
avg rating 4.03 — 308 ratings — published 2004
3000 Degrees: The True Story of a Deadly Fire and the Men Who Fought It (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as firefighting)
avg rating 4.42 — 700 ratings — published 2002
Ordinary Heroes: A Memoir of 9/11 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as firefighting)
avg rating 4.55 — 2,450 ratings — published 2021
Report from Ground Zero (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as firefighting)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,186 ratings — published 2002
Strong of Heart: Life and Death in the Fire Department of New York (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as firefighting)
avg rating 4.28 — 107 ratings — published 2003
B-Shifter: A Firefighter's Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as firefighting)
avg rating 4.23 — 115 ratings — published 2008
The Fire Line: The Story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as firefighting)
avg rating 4.15 — 970 ratings — published 2016
The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as firefighting)
avg rating 4.14 — 18,286 ratings — published 2009
San Francisco Is Burning: The Untold Story of the 1906 Earthquake and Fires (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as firefighting)
avg rating 3.59 — 419 ratings — published 2005
My Lost Brothers: The Untold Story by the Yarnell Hill Fire's Lone Survivor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as firefighting)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,421 ratings — published 2016
The Smoke Jumper (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as firefighting)
avg rating 4.06 — 32,696 ratings — published 2001
Emergency Room (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as firefighting)
avg rating 3.55 — 1,350 ratings — published 1994
Collapse of Burning Buildings: A Guide to Fireground Safety (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as firefighting)
avg rating 4.43 — 61 ratings — published 1988
Firefighter Functional Fitness: The Essential Guide to Optimal Firefighter Performance and Longevity (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as firefighting)
avg rating 4.36 — 96 ratings — published
Brannigan's Building Construction for the Fire Service: . (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as firefighting)
avg rating 3.82 — 50 ratings — published 1992
To Sleep with the Angels: The Story of a Fire (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as firefighting)
avg rating 4.40 — 2,034 ratings — published 1996
A Firefighter's Journal: Thirty-Seven Years on the Firegrounds and in the Firehouses of Philadelphia (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as firefighting)
avg rating 4.74 — 23 ratings — published
On the Burning Edge: A Fateful Fire and the Men Who Fought It (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as firefighting)
avg rating 4.16 — 573 ratings — published 2015
The Esperanza Fire: Arson, Murder, and the Agony of Engine 57 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as firefighting)
avg rating 4.32 — 373 ratings — published 2013
Essentials of Fire Fighting (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as firefighting)
avg rating 4.02 — 111 ratings — published 1983
Fire on the Mountain: The True Story of the South Canyon Fire (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as firefighting)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,565 ratings — published 1999
So Others Might Live (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as firefighting)
avg rating 4.25 — 81 ratings — published 2002
Fire Officer's Handbook Of Tactics (3rd Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as firefighting)
avg rating 4.11 — 121 ratings — published 1992
Firehouse (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as firefighting)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,622 ratings — published 2002
Rescue Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as firefighting)
avg rating 4.17 — 76 ratings — published 2007
Five Floors Up: The Heroic Family Story of Four Generations in the FDNY (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as firefighting)
avg rating 4.14 — 183 ratings — published
Pass It On: What we know…What we want you to know (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as firefighting)
avg rating 4.35 — 46 ratings — published 2013
Step Up and Lead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as firefighting)
avg rating 4.41 — 135 ratings — published 2013
On the Line: Women Firefighters Tell Their Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as firefighting)
avg rating 4.59 — 27 ratings — published 2011
The Rural Firefighting Handbook (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as firefighting)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
The Library Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as firefighting)
avg rating 3.88 — 123,670 ratings — published 2018
I Survived the Attacks of September 11th, 2001 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as firefighting)
avg rating 4.24 — 12,725 ratings — published 2012
Burn Boston Burn: The Largest Arson Case in the History of the Country (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as firefighting)
avg rating 3.62 — 295 ratings — published 2019
Things You Save in a Fire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as firefighting)
avg rating 4.02 — 176,517 ratings — published 2019
Call the Fire Brigade: Fighting London's Fires (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as firefighting)
avg rating 3.72 — 60 ratings — published 2012
American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as firefighting)
avg rating 3.79 — 16,666 ratings — published 2017
Blood, Sweat, Tears, and Prayers: Firefighting and EMS from Some of the Toughest Streets in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as firefighting)
avg rating 4.12 — 57 ratings — published 2015
Fahrenheit 451 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as firefighting)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,812,693 ratings — published 1953
Heat: Fire C.S.I. and the War on Arson and Murder (Adrenaline)
by (shelved 2 times as firefighting)
avg rating 3.29 — 21 ratings — published 1991
Fire! Fire! (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as firefighting)
avg rating 3.88 — 160 ratings — published 1984
Essentials of Fire Fighting and Fire Department Operations (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as firefighting)
avg rating 4.23 — 100 ratings — published 2008
Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as firefighting)
avg rating 3.97 — 4,605 ratings — published 2011
102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as firefighting)
avg rating 4.30 — 12,604 ratings — published 2005
My Turn On The Fire Lines:A 22 Year Manhattan Firefighting Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as firefighting)
avg rating 4.35 — 23 ratings — published 2009
Burning Up (Smoke Jumpers, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as firefighting)
avg rating 3.72 — 741 ratings — published 2012
“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.”
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“The first few weeks of any firefighter's career are an impatient wait to start living the dream, and mine were no different. This was back before I understood that it was also a job, that there would be moments of frustration and grief, back when it was a fantasy that had come true but hadn't stopped being a fantasy yet.”
― Working Fire: The Making of a Fireman
― Working Fire: The Making of a Fireman
