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Smoky Days and Sleepless Nights - A Century or so with the Albion Fire Department (Paperback)
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Smoky Days and Sleepless Nights - A Century or so with the Albion Fire Department (Paperback)
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Loot Price R279
Discovery Miles 2 790
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Humor writer Mark R. Hunter often speaks of his life ballooning out
of control, and there's no better example than this work, a look at
the first century of service for his home town's volunteer fire
department. Hunter, who's also a thirty-three year veteran
firefighter, turned an idea for a pamphlet for the Albion fire
Department's 100th anniversary into a 25 year marathon that
produced a book ... just in time for the 125th anniversary. Smoky
Days and Sleepless Nights chronicles the hazardous early days of
Albion, Indiana, which like many small towns of the time tended to
burn down - a lot. The story follows the efforts of townspeople to
organize themselves into a firefighting force, and the
personalities that stepped in along the way. It moves into modern
times along with the volunteers, who face not only danger and death
but changing technology and new threats. Using newspaper accounts,
official records, oral stories and the fine art of digging for
details, Hunter shows how hand drawn apparatus and desperate bucket
brigades turned into the trained, organized and well equipped
department of today. Smoky Days and Sleepless Nights is well
illustrated with historical and firefighting photos. It's also
spiced with the humor that Hunter, the author of a novel and short
story collection in addition to his column, "Slightly Off The
Mark," has become known for.
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