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As someone who knows someone who worked at the SFFD, this book really opened my eyes into what firemen do and go through. Also, as someone whose girlfriend lives in the Oakland Hills, the chapter about the Oakland Firestorm in 1991 brought back many awful memories - the fire stopped one hill away from her house after 3 days of evacuation! Not an easy read, especially the last chapters. So different to The Lost Cat! Gwyn
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GREAT BOOK! at first its kinda slow but it picks up and you wont want to put the book down. I read it in a couple days and was very sad when it was over it was like a great movie!!!I want to be a female firefighter too so lots of respect to Caroline Paul!!!
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I read "Fighting Fire" when it first came out, and reading the revised edition was a great pleasure. Caroline Paul rocks and her story is an inspiration to strivers everywhere. After you read her memoir, check out her gorgeous novel, "East, Wind, Rain."
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Love this book; have read it over five times. The best part is her description of fighting fires..you can actually feel the heat of the fames as she fights the fire from the nozzle point. She could be a Joseph Wambaugh or Gina Gallo of fire fighting if she wanted to be. I think she's trying to go in a more literary direction, but I'd really like to see more fire fighting books out of her. The part of the book that surpised me was the "east coast" idea that a fire fighter was a "lowly" blue collar job. I'm from San Francisco, and here everyone looks up to the position of fire fighter as a very special job, that only a few chosen can do. It never occurred to me that people looked at fire fighters in any other way.
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This book had all the potential to become one of my favorites. As a young, aspiring female firefighter I anticipated finding in Paul a trailblazing mentor I could look up to. Instead I found myself faced with a colossal disappointment.
First of all, she begins the book by mentioning her sexual escapades with a girl in college. Is that really necessary to the tale of becoming a firefighter, or did she just throw that in to sell a few extra copies of this book?? Next, not only does she take her testing with SFFD lightly, she repeatedly insults the profession throughout the book, all the way to the end. She grimaces with distaste and embarrassment that it is "blue collar work", god forbid! What will her Stanford friends think? Gasp!
Furthermore, she seems high maintenanced and hyper sensitive when relating to the men of the department. She waxes on for years about some stupid fire station prank that a captain pulled on her. In my department, if you never have any good natured pranks pulled on you, you basically are not perceived as part of the family! It's a GOOD thing to be part of the jokes, and a healthy boost to morale.
For a Stanford graduate, she seems to really have a hard time grasping simple concepts. "What does this mean?" seems to be her mantra throughout the book. This is not rocket science, it's firefighting. While academy certainly gives us a lot of information to process, it's pretty basic concepts!
Finally, I find it hard to like her as a person due to her seemingly high level of conceit, which she unsuccessfully tries to disguise as modesty. She never fails to inform the reader of how beautiful or talented she is.Read more ›
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In early 2000, I found this book on the clearance rack at my local book store. After reading it, I was in spired to finally fulfill my dream of becoming a firefighter. And now I am a 15 year veteran of my fire department. Thanks Caroline Paul!!!!
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Loved, loved, loved this book! If you've ever fantasized about what it would be like to be one of the boys, to be so kick-ass strong you could hang with a bunch of firefighters, this is a great read. Plus, it's really well written. Memoirs like these are often full of interesting details but written in such a way that they're a bit of a slog to get through. Paul's book reads as well as any great piece of fiction--the fact that it's all true just makes it all the more riveting.
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