In a society in which books are outlawed, Montag, a regimented fireman in charge of burning the forbidden volumes, meets a revolutionary school teacher who dares to read. Suddenly he finds himself a hunted fugitive, forced to choose not only between two women, but between personal safety and intellectual freedom.

Over the course of my twenty-five-year career as a firefighter, I noticed that many promising rookies and probationary year firefighters made mistakes that sent them into a tailspin, ending their careers. Most of the time, their mistakes weren't really their fault. I remember thinking that they would have made it if only they had had a mentor or someone to show them the ropes, show them how to avoid the pitfalls and errors that doomed their efforts....

Brother & Sister Firefighter, Sometime, ask a seasoned firefighter if they've ever seen anything funny in the firehouse and see where the conversation goes. A couple things will likely happen: the old salt will likely recall a number of great times they've had that are unlike any other social environment out there, and second, the new blood will get an idea of how America's firehouse should be. A laughing firehouse is a healthy firehouse. Some of...

Esta tercera edición del libro de Emergencias presenta todos sus contenidos completamente revisados y actualizados en lo que a legislación se refiere. Pero además aporta un material inédito que ha sido cuidadosamente analizado y seleccionado. Cada tema contiene diferentes extractos y comentarios de las principales normativas españolas de apoyo que actualmente regulan el ámbito de las emergencias, junto con aplicaciones prácticas en forma de...

STOP THE BURN is a book chronicling California's destructive and deadly firestorms of 2017-2018, and the conditions leading up to this wildfire epidemic. Beginning by referencing the Northern California Hanly Fire of 1964, the author brings us to the present by specifically addressing the issues creating these hazardous conditions, and then providing the best solution for preventing the majority of the state's wildfires in the future. The book quotes,...

What can you learn from a hotshot supe? You might be surprised. Clearly, it takes toughness, strength, and will to lead a hotshot crew. Did you know it also takes empathy, humor, and intellect? All that and more goes into building a motivated, efficient team that survives the grueling fire season and sticks together like a family. The hotshot superintendents in this book don't just know this, they've lived it, and they're passing their knowledge...

On August 25, 1931, five men died fighting the devastating Waldron Creek Fire west of Choteau, Montana. Lacking training and preparation, Herbert Novotny, Frank Williamson, Hjalmer G. Gunnarson, Ted Bierchen, and Charles Allen dashed into the flames and never stood a chance. The Teton County coroner added insult to injury, noting that each had 'no one to blame but himself.' Three men were buried in unmarked graves. Records show that the body of the...

Alameda County spans from the shores of the San Francisco Bay to the golden inland hills. Alameda County Fire Department (ACFD) is comprised of multiple consolidated agencies that began joining forces and sharing resources in 1993. Protecting unincorporated county land as well as Ashland, Cherryland, San Lorenzo, Castro Valley, San Leandro, Dublin, Union City, Newark, Emeryville, and the National Laboratories at Livermore and Berkeley, ACFD serves...

The first lookouts were rustic camps on mountaintops, where men and women were stationed to keep an eye out for wildfires. As the importance of fire prevention grew, a lookout construction boom resulted in hundreds of cabins and towers being built on Oregon's high points. When aircraft and cameras became more cost-effective and efficient methods of fire detection, many old lookouts were abandoned or removed. Of the many hundreds of lookouts built...

Cole Walker, an inexperienced fire captain, is cruelly baptized into fire life when he is ripped from his air-conditioned desk job and plunged into the command of an obstinate crew of four mischievous firefighters. Walker's book-smarts do not prepare him for tumultuous firehouse life, or the vivid horrors of his dangerous profession.Cole Walker finally realizes his life-long dream when he is promoted to fire captain, and takes the place of a highly...