About this title: This fascinating, first-person account of the battle to save the Pentagon on 9/11 portrays the dramatic efforts of hundreds of firefighters, police, and other first responders as they fought to contain the largest building blaze in American history.
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Publisher: Presidio Press
Date Published: 2008-05-27
ISBN-13:9780891419051ISBN:0891419055
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Presidio Press
Date Published: 2008-05-27
ISBN-13:9780891419051ISBN:0891419055
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Edition: 1st edition
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: Random House Inc
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780891419051ISBN:0891419055
Description: New. This fascinating, first-person account of the battle to save the Pentagon on 9/11 portrays the dramatic efforts of hundreds of firefighters, police, and other first responders as they fought to contain the largest building blaze in American history. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Presidio Pr
Date Published: 2008-05-27
ISBN-13:9780891419051ISBN:0891419055
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"Firefight is a story about the people who responded to the Pentagon on the morning of September 11, 2001. But beyond that it is a glimpse into their actions, reactions and interactions that day and in the weeks that followed.
In a former life I was a fire department wife. Then I was an Army wife. On September 11th I was an Air Force mom. So I could be predjudiced to like this book.
It's not a story however that has much to do with the military or the fire service per se; and is not just a book for history students, 9/11 junkies and firefighter groupies.
What this inside story does have is a very personal voice, reading with heart, insight, plus an unflinching dedication to accuracy in retelling both positives and negatives. And the surprise inside? There's a love story you will first surmise and then have confirmed. Bonuses like this sometimes make all the difference and these authors get it.
Small details of the everyday people whose names I don't see on TV allow Firefight to read almost like a memoir although it's not. And at the same time the same small details were what made me feel guilty as I was reading.
While I was paralyzed with fear in front of my bedroom tv just a bit upriver from the Pentagon, I now know I should have been driving a few miles to Costco to buy cases of gatorade for the firefighters who weren't any more prepared for their basic needs that day than any of the rest of us were to smell burning jet fuel along the Potomac.
Although I have studied the story of September eleventh extensively, now I have a much greater understanding of what was happening around and in the Pentagon that day, how various emergency departments and agencies struggled to do their parts of a tough job in the face of inherent dangers, unexpected hazards, and roadblocks thrown up by the system.
It's a thick book that you won't want to put down."
"I was initially attracted to this book because it is written by two JMU alumni. The book was an interesting read, however, I was expecting there to be more discussion of the victims at the Pentagon on 9/11. Instead, the book mainly focuses on the firefighters and rescue workers who worked to save the Pentagon structure on 9/11 and in the days after."
"I really enjoyed this book--a very compelling story, well-told, lots of interesting details. My only complaints are that maybe it was too detailed and too long--I think they needed more editing. Got bogged down about half-way through, but then the story picked up again. I felt it was almost too factual; the authors didn't draw any conclusions about what they learned or about the overall experience for people on the ground, except in the most basic way. I felt like there should have been a little more follow-up with a lot of the DOD people involved at the beginning of the story.
More review: What the authors really needed to have done was follow a small number of people through the entire story. This book reads more like a report because it follows the Pentagon itself through the whole story, and doesn't follow people from beginning to end. Some come close, but of course that was the nature of the response to the disaster--it started with DOD people on the scene, then firefighters, then FEMA teams and FBI, etc. But the authors could have followed the story of those who were on scene a little later by starting with what they were doing at the beginning of the story even though they weren't at the Pentagon. It would have been nice to have the whole story of the Pentagon framed by the stories of Chris Coombs, Jen Farmer, Dave King, Craig Powell, Chief Schwartz, and Mike Regan. Plus maybe one other firefighter, and one other DOD person (the building supervisor maybe, since this is the story of the building). The authors followed those people through a large portion of the book, but didn't frame the story the way they could have, to give it a cohesiveness, and to make it more personal and compelling. It would be tough to cut out some of the stories relating to the countless other people who were involved, but that would have made a better book. But that is probably a huge dilemma when telling a true story where you want to honor all the heroes involved."
"This is a pretty good discussion of a somewhat overlooked part of the events of September 11, 2001. It generally manages not to be overly maudlin or politically divisive."
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