Turnout: A Firefighter's Story

By Bill Hall

Book Overview

The word "Firefighter" evokes many images in the minds of people everywhere. They are perceived as low-life's who sit around the fire house playing cards and pool, and shooting the breeze to saving... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0897782356
• ISBN13: 9780897782357
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Greenberg Pub. Co.
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

TURNOUT: A FIREFIGHTERS STORY

THIS IS A VERY WONDERFULLY WRITTEN BOOK BY A NICE GUY BILL HALL OF BCFD RESCUE-1 I HAVE HAD THE PLEASURE OF MEETING HIM A FEW TIMES.HE RODE RESCUE-1 & STILL DOES FOR ABOUT 10 YEARS. THIS BOOK TAKES YOU TO THE FRONT LINES W/ BILL WHEN HE WAS A PARAMEDIC ON THE MEAN STREETS & TO BIG FIRES THIS IS ALSO COMPLETE W/ SOME GREAT FIRE PHOTOS. YOU WILL BE RODDONG SHOTGUN WITH BILL IN AN AMBULANCE & HIS PARTNER ON RESCUE-1. WHAT A GOOD BOOK.

Ride the back step of RESCUE 1 of ever busy Baltimore City

Pull your helmut strap tight and hold on for your life as RESCUE 1 tears through the streets of Baltimore in a mad dash to save lives. This account of actual responces of RESCUE 1, will give you a feel for what the fireman of Baltimore City face on each tour of duty. Bill Hall spins a yarn in this exciting and very realistic narrative. It has many fireground and rescue scene stories that are written in a way to peak the interest of all-- from the fire buff to the veteren smoke eater. However, this is not your typical fire department book telling one fire story after another until they all run together in the readers mind. Writing such as this robs these accounts of their excitment and adrenaline. And that just aint Bill Halls style. "Turnout" instead chooses to highlight the "unusual" runs that fireman face everyday. Some are funny, some are downright sad, but thay are all extremely interesting and all are true.