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Filled with comprehensive, exclusive interviews with firefighters who responded to the World Trade Center attack, WTC: In Their Own Words, is a special collector's edition book from Firehouse® Magazine in commemoration of the 10th anniversary of 9/11. This softbound book takes a highly detailed, in-depth look at the day's events and fire department response. This book also includes an exclusive DVD which includes interviews and testimonials from survivors and firefighters.
A portion of the proceeds will benefit these four organizations:
FDNY Foundation
National Fallen Firefighters Foundation
UFA Thomas R. Elsasser Fund
Wounded Warrior Project
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The disastrous story of how a computer program burned down America's greatest city-and forever changed the way the modern city works. This is perhaps the most important contemporary history book ever written about FDNY, full of insightful lessons to be learned for any municipal fire department of any size in any country.
The Fires tells the story of how the good intentions of an ambitious, working-class fire chief, a charismatic mayor and his wonkish successor, and the RAND Corporation went so disastrously wrong - and reveals how RAND's formulas were inextricably woven into the fabric of the late twentieth- and twenty-first century city. RAND sold their computer models to cities across the country, and the very same system is still used by the FDNY to allocate resources. At a time when our country faces an economic climate not seen since the 1970s, and looks for new solutions, new heroes, and new cityscapes, The Fires could not be a more salient book. The strongest lesson is that the short-term cost-cutting measures (shutting stations, decommissioning companies), actually cost more long-term: in delivery of social services, lost business revenue, lost property tax revenue and countless other real costs to the city's budget. |
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 This book is in recognition of all who lost so much on the darkest Saturday in Australia's history. Australia's worst natural disaster was a tragedy beyond belief that scarred Victoria physically and the whole Australian nation psychologically. Extreme temperatures, tornado-like wind speeds and tinder-dry land, culminated in the disaster now known as Black Saturday. Before the sun would set on the blackest day in Australia's history, thousands of hectares would become blackened landscape and an unparalleled loss of lives could only mean that many areas would never be the same again. The floods in 2011 brought more anguish to Victoria state as well as Queensland and the rest of the country, raising the bar on natural disasters, perhaps make the floods even more costly than Black Saturday.
This graphic pictorial record chronicles the conditions prior to the day, the horrific fires that destroyed both bush and townships alike, the amazing bravery of emergency services personnel and the tragic aftermath. Accounts from eye-witnesses describe a fire like never seen before, a wild fire that outran every warning system. All of the work to compile, publish, and print this work is donated from throughout the state of Victoria in Australia. |
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