FIRE/RESCUE
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FIRE / RESCUE
I invite you on a world wind tour through my career as a Firefighter. There’s everything from happy times to unbelievable horror and all of it is in the real world. The stories in my book are true. They are calls that I ran on over the course of my career. I’ve seen more than most, being that I was on two fire departments, taught as a state certified instructor, worked for an ambulance company and even worked in a trauma emergency room and ICU ward.
There is a lot of death and destruction in the book. There is even times I got screwed over by my fellow Firefighters who I thought was supposed to be a family. All the while I was in it to help people and be the best Firefighter I could be. This is my story…
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