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Black Firefighters and the FDNY

Author : David Goldberg
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469633639
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book Black Firefighters and the FDNY written by David Goldberg and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2017-10-23 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many African Americans, getting a public sector job has historically been one of the few paths to the financial stability of the middle class, and in New York City, few such jobs were as sought-after as positions in the fire department (FDNY). For over a century, generations of Black New Yorkers have fought to gain access to and equal opportunity within the FDNY. Tracing this struggle for jobs and justice from 1898 to the present, David Goldberg details the ways each generation of firefighters confronted overt and institutionalized racism. An important chapter in the histories of both Black social movements and independent workplace organizing, this book demonstrates how Black firefighters in New York helped to create affirmative action from the "bottom up," while simultaneously revealing how white resistance to these efforts shaped white working-class conservatism and myths of American meritocracy. Full of colorful characters and rousing stories drawn from oral histories, discrimination suits, and the archives of the Vulcan Society (the fraternal society of Black firefighters in New York), this book sheds new light on the impact of Black firefighters in the fight for civil rights.

City Firefighters

Author : Meish Goldish
Publisher : Bearport Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1627241493
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book City Firefighters written by Meish Goldish and published by Bearport Publishing. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A warehouse in a large city catches fire late at night. The flames spread to every floor, and nearby buildings are in danger of being caught up in the blaze. Suddenly, ear-piercing sirens fill the air. Trucks speed down a busy street. They stop in front of the warehouse, and firefighters rush out to contain the deadly blaze before anyone gets hurt. In City Firefighters, dramatic, true stories will keep readers turning the pages as they learn firsthand how these tough, brave firefighters use their strength, quick thinking, and expert skills to battle deadly blazes. In addition, readers will go behind the scenes to learn how city firefighters train for their job so that they are ready to spring into action at a moment’s notice.

City of Fire

Author : Laurence Yep
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780765358790
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (587 download)

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Download or read book City of Fire written by Laurence Yep and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-08-03 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When her older sister dies trying to prevent the theft of one of her people'sgreat treasures, Scirye sets out to avenge her and recover the precious item.320 pp.

The Brave, a Story of New York City's Firefighters

Author : George Pickett, Hugh Downs
Publisher : ibooks
ISBN 13 : 188328337X
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (832 download)

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Download or read book The Brave, a Story of New York City's Firefighters written by George Pickett, Hugh Downs and published by ibooks. This book was released on 2010-03-13 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: •“Much has been written about firefighters, some of it by people who actually fight fires. Few of the books I have any knowledge of show the mindset of the firefighters with as much insight and candor as this book...” —from the foreword by Hugh Downs •“Every so often a writer of substantive talent appears through the smokey background to perk up our interest in firefighters and firefighting. George Pickett is just such a man.... In The Brave you will come to know him and a valiant group of men as they speed from alarm to alarm in downtown New York, where the buildings are tall and for the most part old, where bums and drug addicts populate the streets, and where the fire companies hardly ever rest. You will begin to feel that you too are a member of Engine 33, Ladder 9, and, after George’s promotion to lieutenant, of some of Brooklyn’s busiest fire companies. It is an empowering feeling, until you suddenly realize that these are among the very first fire companies who will arrive one fateful day in their future at the World Trade Center, providing our city with more courage, determination, and selflessness that we ever knew we had. You will then thank George Pickett for letting you into their lives.” —Dennis Smith, New York Times’ bestselling author

Fire in the Forest! (LEGO City)

Author : Samantha Brooke
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0545765889
Total Pages : 35 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (457 download)

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Download or read book Fire in the Forest! (LEGO City) written by Samantha Brooke and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2014-05-27 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading is always fun in Lego City! When a forest fire breaks out in LEGO City it's up to the LEGO City fireman to put out the flames!

Houston Fire Department

Author : Fire Museum of Houston and Tristan Smith
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467132985
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (671 download)

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Download or read book Houston Fire Department written by Fire Museum of Houston and Tristan Smith and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2015 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Houston's firefighting service began in 1838 with the founding of Protection Fire Company No. 1. As the city of Houston grew throughout the early and mid-19th century, volunteer companies formed and grew along with it. By 1895, city leaders decided to form the Houston Fire Department as a city department, culling the volunteer forces for men, stations, apparatus, and horses. The city grew in leaps and bounds, swallowing up neighborhoods, communities, and smaller cities along the way, with the fire department nipping at their heels. This brave force battled devastating fires throughout the years, most notably the Great Fifth Ward Fire in 1912, the 1943 Gulf Hotel Fire, the Woodway Square Apartment Conflagration in 1979 and the Southwest Inn Fire in 2013. What was once a smattering of volunteer fire brigades has grown into an imposing force of over 3,000 firefighters protecting over two million people in the fourth largest city in the United States.

Industrial Firefighting for Municipal Firefighters

Author : Craig H. Shelley
Publisher : Fire Engineering Books
ISBN 13 : 1593700814
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (937 download)

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Download or read book Industrial Firefighting for Municipal Firefighters written by Craig H. Shelley and published by Fire Engineering Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written to specifically prepare the municipal firefighter for responses to a wide range of industrial fires, this book is ideal for municipal firefighters at any stage of their career, as well as for personnel at industrial facilities who operate or coordinate response with municipal fire departments.

Firefighting in Roanoke

Author : Rhett Fleitz
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738543567
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (435 download)

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Download or read book Firefighting in Roanoke written by Rhett Fleitz and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Roanoke Fire Department's history began in 1882 when the first firefighters were organized by the newly chartered City of Roanoke. The volunteer fire companies such as the Vigilants, Juniors, Friendship, and Alerts provided protection against fire for the city. Roanoke began paying firefighters in about 1903; they were usually drivers to get the horses and steam engines ready for when the volunteers showed up. In 1907, the last of the volunteers disbanded in a show of solidarity to the city, and the Roanoke Fire Department became fully paid. The department doubled in size in 1936 when a second platoon was added and grew again in 1972 when the third platoon was added. The Roanoke Fire Department continued to protect the citizens and visitors of Roanoke City up until 1995 when it merged with Roanoke City EMS to form the Roanoke Fire-EMS Department. In Firefighting in Roanoke, the history of this 125-year-old local service tradition is told.

Fire City

Author : Bali Rai
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1409096572
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Fire City written by Bali Rai and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-08-30 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-five years ago the world changed forever. A great war, which had raged for three years ended, and the reign of the Demons began... Within the crumbling walls of Fire City, fifteen-year-old Martha is a member of the resistance, a small band of humans fighting for freedom in a lawless and horrifying new world. Amidst the chaos of battle arrives Jonah, a handsome stranger with a thirst for revenge and a power to destroy the Demon rulers. As Martha and Jonah’s lives collide, the future of the resistance is altered forever. The battle for humankind will now begin. An epic story of catastrophe, survival and the power of humanity.

Johnson City Firefighting

Author : Robert G. Blakeslee
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738550084
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Johnson City Firefighting written by Robert G. Blakeslee and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With compelling photographs dating from 1889 to the present, Johnson City Firefighting portrays not only the spectacular fires that this south-central New York State city has experienced over the years but also the founding, growth, and personnel of the Johnson City Fire Department. This fire history is notable because of the man for whom the community is named: shoe manufacturer George F. Johnson. To keep his factories safe, Johnson paid for fire stations, equipment, advanced alarm systems, and even early sprinkler systems.

Firefighters to the Rescue (LEGO City Nonfiction)

Author : Penelope Arlon
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1338283456
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (382 download)

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Download or read book Firefighters to the Rescue (LEGO City Nonfiction) written by Penelope Arlon and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2018-08-28 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LEGO(R) City minifigures rush to the rescue! This stunning book is filled with outstanding photos, fun facts, and lots of LEGO(R) humor. Did you know that a fire truck's ladder can reach as high as 100 feet? Join the LEGO (R) minifigures on an exciting adventure as firefighters race to the rescue around LEGO City. Learn amazing facts about their rescue vehicles, daily tasks, and heroic rescues. Bursting with stunning photographs, fun facts, mini comics, building ideas, and stickers, Firefighters to the Rescue is the perfect book for any young reader. The LEGO(R) nonfiction series is exceptional as it combines the world's most powerful toy brand with the most trusted name in children's publishing.

City on Fire

Author : Garth Risk Hallberg
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0385353782
Total Pages : 1109 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book City on Fire written by Garth Risk Hallberg and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 1109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A mystery that reverberates through families, friendships, and the corridors of power in New York and "captures the city’s dangerous, magnetic allure" (The New York Times). • Streaming now on Apple TV+ “As close to a great American novel as this century has produced.” —Stephen King New York City, 1976. Meet Regan and William Hamilton-Sweeney, estranged heirs to one of the city’s great fortunes; Keith and Mercer, the men who, for better or worse, love them; Charlie and Samantha, two suburban teenagers seduced by downtown’s punk scene; an obsessive magazine reporter and his idealistic neighbor—and the detective trying to figure out what any of them have to do with a shooting in Central Park on New Year’s Eve. When the blackout of July 13, 1977, plunges this world into darkness, each of these lives will be changed forever. City on Fire is an unforgettable novel about love and betrayal and forgiveness, about art and truth and rock ’n’ roll: about what people need from each other in order to live—and about what makes the living worth doing in the first place.

Fire Department, City of New York

Author : Paul Hashagen
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 1563118327
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (631 download)

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Download or read book Fire Department, City of New York written by Paul Hashagen and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2002 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the history of FDNY from 1865-2000, with 2000-2002 update.

Justice on Fire

Author : J. Patrick O'Connor
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 : 0700626719
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Justice on Fire written by J. Patrick O'Connor and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2018-08-21 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the night of November 29, 1988, near the impoverished Marlborough neighborhood in south Kansas City, an explosion at a construction site killed six of the city’s firefighters. It was a clear case of arson, and five people from Marlborough were duly convicted of the crime. But for veteran crime writer and crusading editor J. Patrick O’Connor, the facts—or a lack of them—didn’t add up. Justice on Fire is O’Connor’s detailed account of the terrible explosion that led to the firefighters’ deaths and the terrible injustice that followed. Justice on Fire describes a misguided eight-year investigation propelled by an overzealous Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) agent keen to retire; a mistake-riddled case conducted by a combative assistant US attorney willing to use compromised “snitch” witnesses and unwilling to admit contrary evidence; and a sentence of life without parole pronounced by a prosecution-favoring judge. In short, an abuse of government power and a travesty of justice. O’Connor’s own investigation, which uncovered evidence of witness tampering, intimidation, and prosecutorial misconduct, helped give rise to a front-page series of articles in the Kansas City Star—only to prompt a whitewashing inquiry by the Department of Justice that exonerated the lead ATF agent and named other possible perpetrators who remain unidentified and unindicted. O’Connor extends his scrutiny to this cover-up and arrives at a startling conclusion suggesting that the case of the Marlborough Five is far from closed. Journalists are not supposed to make the news. But faced with a gross injustice, and seeing no other remedy, O’Connor felt he must step in. Justice on Fire is such an intervention.

Bird on Fire

Author : Andrew Ross
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199912297
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book Bird on Fire written by Andrew Ross and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-27 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Phoenix, Arizona is one of America's fastest growing metropolitan regions. It is also its least sustainable one, sprawling over a thousand square miles, with a population of four and a half million, minimal rainfall, scorching heat, and an insatiable appetite for unrestrained growth and unrestricted property rights. In Bird on Fire, eminent social and cultural analyst Andrew Ross focuses on the prospects for sustainability in Phoenix--a city in the bull's eye of global warming--and also the obstacles that stand in the way. Most authors writing on sustainable cities look at places that have excellent public transit systems and relatively high density, such as Portland, Seattle, or New York. But Ross contends that if we can't change the game in fast-growing, low-density cities like Phoenix, the whole movement has a major problem. Drawing on interviews with 200 influential residents--from state legislators, urban planners, developers, and green business advocates to civil rights champions, energy lobbyists, solar entrepreneurs, and community activists--Ross argues that if Phoenix is ever to become sustainable, it will occur more through political and social change than through technological fixes. Ross explains how Arizona's increasingly xenophobic immigration laws, science-denying legislature, and growth-at-all-costs business ethic have perpetuated social injustice and environmental degradation. But he also highlights the positive changes happening in Phoenix, in particular the Gila River Indian Community's successful struggle to win back its water rights, potentially shifting resources away from new housing developments to producing healthy local food for the people of the Phoenix Basin. Ross argues that this victory may serve as a new model for how green democracy can work, redressing the claims of those who have been aggrieved in a way that creates long-term benefits for all. Bird on Fire offers a compelling take on one of the pressing issues of our time--finding pathways to sustainability at a time when governments are dismally failing in their responsibility to address climate change.

Fire Truck to the Rescue (LEGO City: Scholastic Reader, Level 1)

Author : Sonia Sander
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1338158732
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Fire Truck to the Rescue (LEGO City: Scholastic Reader, Level 1) written by Sonia Sander and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2016-11-29 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore LEGO(R) City! There's a fire in LEGO(R) City. The fire-fighters are in their fire truck and on their way. With their tall ladder and the very best equipment they'll save the day!

Firefighters to the Rescue

Author : Penelope Arlon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781544421537
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (215 download)

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Download or read book Firefighters to the Rescue written by Penelope Arlon and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Join the LEGO minifigures on an exciting adventure as firefighters race to the rescue around LEGO City. Learn amazing facts about their rescue vehicles, daily tasks, and heroic rescues. Bursting with stunning photographs, fun facts, mini comics, building ideas, and stickers, Firefighters to the Rescue is the perfect book for any young reader"--Amazon.