Fire Duty

Collection of tales about fires in crumbling triple deckers, in hospitals, in flea-bag houses, in funeral parlors and massive cold-storage warehouses with ammonia coursing through the pipes, on wharfs and piers and boats. Told with the same on-the-job realism and felt action of the fireground that is Whitney's inimitable style. Stories about enthusiastic rookies and equally enthusiastic vets, about too-talkative arsonists, and about dramatic rescues in the storm-ravaged ocean off the rugged Maine coast, and about the quiet rescue of one little girl's Christmas. Another bookful of great Whitney stories.