Matthew Gaffney’s Reviews > Fire Fighters: Stories of Survival from the Front Lines of Firefighting > Status Update

Just talks about more firefighters that are in very tight and stressful situation, some fall through roofs, buildings, get stuck in a basement, etc.

The man tells a bunch of short stories of different fires he has been on. Especially how important the Nozzle and getting to a fire first in your first due district.

One guy used to be a cop and now he's a firefighter, he has a lot of respect for the higher ups because they all go into a fire first, he found out that once you reach capital or LT. you are the first person in the fire if your first due.

They go into a little meadow to escape the fire, one of their new guys is only a month out of high school and wanted an adrenaline rush, thats why he joined.

They describe how a normal fire reacts and there are a bunch of hotshots that are digging a fire line in a danger zone, they believe they can still fight and stop the fire.

They dispatched a few dozers to help dig a trench, but a new guy couldnt get up a small hill and now they have to make up for what they lost.

The firefighter was searching for people when it started to get very hot, when trying to find an exit he got caught trying to dive down some stairs. After many weeks in the hospital an burn center he made a full recovery.

The firefighters arrive of a plane in the water, they extricate an older women who they later befriend and still talk to this day. The firefighter was awarded the highest award that can be given in all of FDNY. They are now being dispatched to a power plant explosion.

He made it out alive although was in the hospital for weeks and eventually made a full recovery after ten months. Another firefighter in NYC just got dispatched to a plane wreck with people in the water.