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Into the Smoke with New York's Bravest (Hardcover)
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Into the Smoke with New York's Bravest (Hardcover)
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Into the Smoke is a work of photojournalism and traces Tom Barry's
career as a firefighter-spanning parts of four decades in
FDNY-along with the forty-year effort of noted freelance
photographer Michael Dick. The era covered in this book is best
known in the fire service on the east coast of the United States as
the War Years, the urban decay and social unrest that started in
the 1960s and persisted, continually fed by arson for profit, into
the 1990s. Firefighting is a truckie blindly crawling down a
smoke-filled hallway, searching for victims, hoping to find them
before the fire does. It is an engine operator, calling on the last
ounce of strength and pushing deeper into the apartment to
extinguish the fire in the rear bedroom and beat the "Red Devil"
one more time. Fellowship of the firefighter Fantasies from
childhood intertwine with the terror of impending death, the pain
of disfigurement, the joys of success, and the comradeship and
respect of their peers. Many of the fires depicted in this book
predate OSHA personal protective equipment (PPE) requirements. This
period was a fertile stage for innovation and development of
firefighting techniques and equipment.
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