Turnout: A Firefighter's Story [Paperback]

Bill Hall (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 208 pages
• Publisher: Greenberg Pub; 1 edition (July 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0897782356
• ISBN-13: 978-0897782357
• Product Dimensions: 7.7 x 5 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #428,675 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Ride the back step of RESCUE 1 of ever busy Baltimore City, July 11, 1998

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This review is from: Turnout: A Firefighter's Story (Paperback)

Pull your helmut strap tight and hold on for your life as RESCUE 1 tears through the streets of Baltimore in a mad dash to save lives. This account of actual responces of RESCUE 1, will give you a feel for what the fireman of Baltimore City face on each tour of duty. Bill Hall spins a yarn in this exciting and very realistic narrative. It has many fireground and rescue scene stories that are written in a way to peak the interest of all-- from the fire buff to the veteren smoke eater. However, this is not your typical fire department book telling one fire story after another until they all run together in the readers mind. Writing such as this robs these accounts of their excitment and adrenaline. And that just aint Bill Halls style. "Turnout" instead chooses to highlight the "unusual" runs that fireman face everyday. Some are funny, some are downright sad, but thay are all extremely interesting and all are true.

5.0 out of 5 stars The Real Deal!, July 6, 2011

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Stephen E. Wright (Northeast Pa) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Turnout: A Firefighter's Story (Paperback)

Great book about firefightine in Baltimore in the 1980's and early 90's! Stories told with great detail and great humor and also some of the tragedy

5.0 out of 5 stars TURNOUT: A FIREFIGHTERS STORY, March 7, 2000

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joyce long (BALTIMORE, MARYLAND) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Turnout: A Firefighter's Story (Paperback)

THIS IS A VERY WONDERFULLY WRITTEN BOOK BY A NICE GUY BILL HALL OF BCFD RESCUE-1 I HAVE HAD THE PLEASURE OF MEETING HIM A FEW TIMES.HE RODE RESCUE-1 &STILL DOES FOR ABOUT 10 YEARS. THIS BOOK TAKES YOU TO THE FRONT LINES W/ BILL WHEN HE WAS A PARAMEDIC ON THE MEAN STREETS & TO BIG FIRES THIS IS ALSO COMPLETE W/ SOME GREAT FIRE PHOTOS. YOU WILL BE RODDONG SHOTGUN WITH BILL IN AN AMBULANCE &HIS PARTNER ON RESCUE-1. WHAT A GOOD BOOK.