Beyond an adrenaline ride or a chronicle of bravura heroics, this
unflinching view of a Minneapolis firefighter reveals the
significant toll of emergency response In this remarkable memoir,
Jeremy Norton marshals twenty-two years of professional experience
to offer, with compassion and critique, an extraordinary portrayal
of emergency responders. Trauma Sponges captures in arresting
detail the personal and social toll the job exacts, as well as the
unique perspective afforded by sustained direct encounters with the
sick, the dying, and the dead. From his first days as a rookie
firefighter and emergency medical technician to his command of a
company as a twenty-year veteran, Norton documents the life of an
emergency responder in Minneapolis: the harrowing, heartbreaking
calls, from helping the sick and hurt, to reassuring the scared and
nervous, to attempting desperate measures and providing final
words. In the midst of the uncertainty, fear, and loss caused by
the Covid pandemic, Norton and his crew responded to the scene of
George Floyd’s murder. The social unrest and racial injustice
Norton had observed for years exploded on the streets of
Minneapolis, and he and his fellow firefighters faced the fires,
the injured, and the anguish in the days and months that followed.
Norton brings brutally honest insight and grave social conscience
to his account, presenting a rare insider’s perspective on the
insidious role of sexism and machismo in his profession, as well as
an intimate observer’s view of individuals trapped in dire
circumstances and a society ill equipped to confront trauma and
death. His thought-provoking, behind-the-scenes depiction of the
work of first response and last resort starkly reveals the
realities of humanity at its finest and its worst.
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