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Fighting Fire was a Book of the Month Club selection, voted one of the Top Ten
Best Summer Reads by the Today Show, and received a starred review from the
Library Association.
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"Another window blows out from the force of the heat. I feel the adrenaline start to leak behind my ears and down my
throat. My heart pounds. Not from fear, but from something else. Wonder. Awe. And a little bit of disbelief. There is
something about fire that touches our soul and moves us in a profound, primal way. In the face of it, we want to ask the
bigger questions….lofty, inappropriate questions like Why am I here in this earth? And smaller ones like How did I get
here, to this place of being a firefighter?... Now come the vast possibilities, the meeting of chance, fate, and luck with
skill and choice. There is no time for existential philosophy; I follow my lieutenant into the roaring building."
------ From Fighting Fire
"Part memoir, part social history, Fighting Fire is a compelling behind-the-scenes story..." --San Francisco
Chronicle
Synopsis (from the Publisher) :
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Caroline Paul was among the first dozen women to join the San Francisco Fire Department, nearly a
decade ago.
A Stanford graduate, she was a film student when a chance encounter and her own
curiosity led her to see whether she could pass the rigorous qualifying tests for the fire department.
Somewhat to her own surprise, she soon found herself a "probie" working hard to learn her job in one
of the most traditionally male-identified professions there is. She tells of the physical dangers and
psychological pressures of the job, the camaraderie and deep loyalty of the department, the
satisfaction of a difficult job well done, and the inevitable tragedies that come with being a firefighter.
And threaded through all the tales of risk and rescue is the story of one young woman who comes to
true adulthood with the realization that she is where she wants to be, doing the work she was meant
to do: fighting fire.
"Terrific...The grip of real fire fighting tensely, tactilely, bruisingly described by a woman honest in examining
her own thoughts, too. She confronts and homes in on what is going on and its fracturing impact."-- Edward Hoagland,
author of Notes from the Century Before and The Courage of Turtles
Hardcover: 288 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.25 x 10.00 x 6.25
Publisher: St. Martin's Press; (May 1998)
ASIN: 0312185812
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