3000 Degrees: The True Story of a Deadly Fire and the Men Who Fought It
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| Rating | : | 4.46 (675 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00009MB4K |
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| Number of Pages | : | 199 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-07-03 |
| Language | : | English |
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My husband is the Assistant Chief of our local fire Elizabeth B My husband is the Assistant Chief of our local fire department, he has been in the fire service for over 20 years. When the Worcester Cold Storage fire occurred, it rocked the fire service across the country, but being only a short 30-minute drive from . Tightly written with memorable characters Amazon Customer This is one of the most gripping true life stories ever. The characters are so well described that the reader will deeply care about each and every one. The writer accurately surmised what must have been in the minds of the firefighters and their famili. "Great read" according to Kindle Customer. I believe that every firefighter should read this. There is it to learn and take in. I enjoyed the fact that I was given a glimpse into their lives. He is heart wrenching when it comes to the end. God Bless the Worcester 6 May you rest in peace and your
1999, the call crackled in to the men of Worchester, Massachusetts Fire Department: a three-alarm warehouse blaze in a six-story windowless colossus of brick and mortar. Firefighters love the excitement of a triple, but this was a different beast. On December 3. What happened once insideand how their lives were changed foreveroffers and unprecedented look at these heroic men whose job it is to rush into burning buildings when everyone else just wants out.
. Nonetheless, the same work ethos that made New York City firemen and rescue companies run into the doomed World Trade Center towers is here in a smaller dimension but equally intense story of fire-fighting tragedy. From Publishers Weekly During the long night of December 3, 1999, a windowless, century-old storage building in downtown Worchester, Mass., was turned into a six-story stove. With confident, deft description, Flynn brings to life this 3,000-degree catastrophe with a crackling intensity, which, unfortunately, he never quite achieves for the people within his story. In gripping prose ("The smoke banked down like bolts of black velvet, heavy sheets curling and rolling and folding together"), Flynn describes how, once ignited, the deserted Worchester Cold Stora