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1. A Voice From the Rubble.

Author

Downey, Tom

Subjects
*SEPTEMBER 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001, *FIRE fighters, *FEAR of death
Abstract

Presents March, 2001 comments from Lincoln Quappe, a New York City fireman who is presumed to be dead following a terrorist attack against the United States in September, 2001. Operations of a fire rescue company in Brooklyn; Experience of fighting a fire; Fear of dying in a fire.

Published
2001

2. On the Edge.

Author

Brown, Patrick and Downey, Tom

Subjects
*FIRE fighters, *FIRE department personnel, *FIRES, *PSYCHOLOGY, *ANECDOTES
Abstract

Offers an anecdote about the author's experience as a firefighter in New York City. The response to a fire and rescue of two victims; How things could have gone wrong; His uneasiness about his decisions years later.

Published
2001

3. Hazing and Heroism.

Author

Downey, Tom

Subjects
*FIRE departments, *MUNICIPAL services, *FIRE fighters, *COURAGE
Abstract

Comments on "firehouse culture" in the New York Fire Department. Scandal involving a firefighter accused of striking another in the head with a metal chair; Rite of passage that earns young men the respect their elders had to earn in the past; Heroism of the New York City firefighters.

Published
2004

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