115 books
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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 — 1,846 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 — 464 ratings — published 2004
Young Men and Fire (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as firefighting)
avg rating 4.03 — 7,435 ratings — published 1992
First In, Last Out: Leadership Lessons from the New York Fire Department (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as firefighting)
avg rating 4.11 — 348 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 — 2,323 ratings — published 2014
Working Fire: The Making of a Fireman (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as firefighting)
avg rating 4.04 — 312 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 4.43 — 726 ratings — published 2002
Ordinary Heroes: A Memoir of 9/11 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as firefighting)
avg rating 4.55 — 2,644 ratings — published 2021
Granite Mountain: The Firsthand Account of a Tragic Wildfire, Its Lone Survivor, and the Firefighters Who Made the Ultimate Sacrifice (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as firefighting)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,553 ratings — published 2016
Report from Ground Zero (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as firefighting)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,207 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 4.27 — 109 ratings — published 2003
B-Shifter: A Firefighter's Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as firefighting)
avg rating 4.21 — 117 ratings — published 2008
The Fire Line: The Story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as firefighting)
avg rating 4.16 — 998 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 — 18,610 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 — 423 ratings — published 2005
The Smoke Jumper (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as firefighting)
avg rating 4.06 — 32,856 ratings — published 2001
Firehouse (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as firefighting)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,651 ratings — published 2002
Hotshot: A Life on Fire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as firefighting)
avg rating 3.68 — 626 ratings — published 2025
Emergency Room (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as firefighting)
avg rating 3.55 — 1,364 ratings — published 1994
Collapse of Burning Buildings: A Guide to Fireground Safety (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as firefighting)
avg rating 4.41 — 63 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 4.39 — 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
Things You Save in a Fire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as firefighting)
avg rating 4.01 — 184,788 ratings — published 2019
To Sleep with the Angels: The Story of a Fire (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as firefighting)
avg rating 4.40 — 2,073 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 4.17 — 579 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 — 382 ratings — published 2013
Essentials of Fire Fighting (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as firefighting)
avg rating 4.04 — 113 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 — 1,613 ratings — published 1999
So Others Might Live (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as firefighting)
avg rating 4.27 — 83 ratings — published 2002
Fire Officer's Handbook Of Tactics (3rd Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as firefighting)
avg rating 4.11 — 123 ratings — published 1992
Last Man Down: A Firefighter's Story of Survival and Escape from the World Trade Center (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as firefighting)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,735 ratings — published 2002
Rescue Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as firefighting)
avg rating 4.19 — 79 ratings — published 2007
Cherry Bomb (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as firefighting)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,098 ratings — published
Burnt: Firefighter’s memoir of burnout, trauma, and trying to rebuild a life. (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as firefighting)
avg rating 4.28 — 653 ratings — published 2023
Five Floors Up: The Heroic Family Story of Four Generations in the FDNY (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as firefighting)
avg rating 4.13 — 189 ratings — published
Pass It On: What we know…What we want you to know (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as firefighting)
avg rating 4.36 — 47 ratings — published 2013
Step Up and Lead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as firefighting)
avg rating 4.38 — 145 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 — 126,298 ratings — published 2018
I Survived the Attacks of September 11th, 2001 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as firefighting)
avg rating 4.24 — 13,134 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 3.63 — 307 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 — 16,823 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 — 58 ratings — published 2015
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as firefighting)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,907,836 ratings — published 1953
Heat: Fire C.S.I. and the War on Arson and Murder (Adrenaline)
by (shelved 2 times as firefighting)
avg rating 3.36 — 22 ratings — published 1991
Fire! Fire! (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as firefighting)
avg rating 3.87 — 159 ratings — published 1984
Essentials of Fire Fighting and Fire Department Operations (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as firefighting)
avg rating 4.22 — 100 ratings — published 2008
“There is a point when a structure fire is raging out of control that you simply have to give it the distance to burn itself out. So you move back to safety, to a hill out of the wind, and you watch the building eat itself alive.”
― My Sister's Keeper
― My Sister's Keeper
“When it comes to your people, you have to connect before you correct.”
― Brotherhood is a VERB!: Not Just Another Damn Leadership Book
― Brotherhood is a VERB!: Not Just Another Damn Leadership Book












