Let Burn

Author : Rachel K. Wentz
Publisher : MSU Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781609173579

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Let Burn by Rachel K. Wentz Pdf

In 1985, desiring a meaningful, high-paced career in public service, Rachel Wentz left her university studies to become a firefighter/paramedic. Only the eighth woman hired by the Orlando Fire Department, a highly competitive department steeped in tradition, Wentz excelled, completing an AS in Fire Science, a master’s in public administration, and numerous specialized training courses to prepare her for an administrative position within the department. Wentz spent eleven years with OFD, experiencing a career that was every bit as exciting and challenging as she had sought. A moving, candid, and eloquent memoir, Let Burn recounts her experiences as a firefighter/paramedic, during which time she witnessed aspects of life and death few people are privy to, experiences that shaped her as a professional and as a person. From the rigorous demands of training to the extraordinary calls Wentz responded to, Let Burn details the gratifying aspects of the field, but also demonstrates the precarious nature of the job: a heated altercation at the scene of an industrial fire leads to Wentz losing almost everything she’s worked for and the dramatic end of a storied career. In vivid detail, Let Burn provides a firsthand glimpse into the hidden world of firefighting and emergency medicine.

Author : Carrie Elks
Publisher : Carrie Elks Publishing Ltd
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2024-02-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Let Me Burn by Carrie Elks Pdf

He's a broken firefighter. She's his sweet escape. 'Let Me Burn tugs at the heart. Ember and Lucas are two lost souls searching for a place to call home. The passion is real, the emotions are raw and the beauty runs deep.' - Isha C, reviewer ‘An intense, captivating and wonderful story.’ – Simona’s Corner of Dreams Blog * * * * * Lucas Russell lives for his job. Forced to take extended leave following an accident, he returns to his small home town to stay at the beach cottage his grandparents left him. After a broken engagement, Ember isn't ready for love right now. But she didn't count on meeting a handsome firefighter with a dimpled smile. After Lucas saves her from one awkward situation too many, she finds him impossible to resist. What starts as a fling develops into something much deeper. Until the day Ember's ex-fiancé returns to town and threatens to destroy the connection that's building between them. One thing's for sure. Somebody is going to get burned.

Author : Michael Boyette,Randi Boyette
Publisher : Quadrant Books®
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781937868338

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Let It Burn by Michael Boyette,Randi Boyette Pdf

"A balanced, well-written account which provides the best overall understanding of these events." ?Library Journal "Compelling."?Publishers Weekly "A solid report from an unusual perspective."?Kirkus Reviews "A balanced view."?Booklist On a narrow street in a working-class neighborhood, the police are held at bay by a small band of armed radicals. Two assaults have already failed. After a morning-long battle involving machine guns, explosives, and tear gas, the radicals remain defiant. In a command post across the street from the boarded-up row house that serves as the militants? headquarters, the beleaguered police commissioner weighs his options and decides on a new plan. He will bomb the house. Let It Burn is the true-life story of the confrontation between the Philadelphia Police Department and the MOVE organization?a group that rejected modern technology and fought for what it called "natural law." The police commissioner's decision to drop an "explosive device" onto the house's roof?and then to let the resulting fire burn while adults and children remained in the house?was the final tragic chapter in a decades-long series of clashes that had already left one policeman dead and others injured, dozens of MOVE members behind bars, and their original compound razed to the ground. By the time the fire burned itself out, eleven MOVE members, many of them women and small children, would be dead. Sixty-one houses in the neighborhood would be destroyed. There would be a city inquiry, numerous civil suits, and two grand-jury inquests following the confrontation. Michael Boyette served on one of the grand juries, where he had a front-row seat as the key players and witnesses?including Mayor Wilson Goode and future Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell?recounted their roles in the tragedy. After the grand jury concluded its investigation, he and coauthor Randi Boyette conducted additional independent research?including exclusive interviews with police who had been on the scene and with MOVE members?to create this moment-by-moment account of the confrontation and the events leading up to it.

Author : Steve Hamilton
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781409140795

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Let It Burn by Steve Hamilton Pdf

The brilliant new thriller from the author of the EDGAR AWARD-winning THE LOCK ARTIST. Half a lifetime ago, Alex McKnight was a young cop in Detroit. Now he's an occasional private eye up in Paradise, Michigan, and trying hard to put the past behind him. Then he gets the call that every cop dreads: a killer he helped put behind bars is getting released, and he might just have payback on his mind. Suddenly the years fall away, and in his mind Alex is back in that hot summer in Detroit, hunting the brutal murderer of a young woman. The problem is, something about the case no longer makes sense, and Alex feels compelled to retrace the steps that led to the arrest and conviction of Darryl King. But it's not just the case that looks different: returning to Detroit, Alex finds a city that is almost unrecognizable from the one he left, a city that is quite literally dying on its feet, where crime and decay hold sway, and law and order are in retreat. And as Alex searches for the truth among the shadows of the past, he discovers a story more shocking than the one he thought he knew and a danger more threatening than an ex-con looking for revenge.

Author : Vince Gowmon,Anna Bradley
Publisher : Vince Gowmon
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 099385950X

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Let the Fire Burn by Vince Gowmon,Anna Bradley Pdf

Let the Fire Burn Nurturing the Creative Spirit of Children is an animated and poetic journey into the creative fire of children, and how to fan its flames. Every child is born with the fullest of creative potential, but due to social conditioning they lose touch with it, and consequently, with their power to create a life of meaning and purpose. Children are here to help us birth a new world, one that is full of joy and imagination. And we as adults have an important role to play in this. In this fun and inspiring Children's Book for Adults, learn the many colorful and engaging ways you can support children to feel and express their creative spirit. Gain a better appreciation for how they are our wise teachers, inviting our own inner child and creative fire to come out and play.

Author : Johnny Townsend
Publisher : Booklocker.com
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Arson
ISBN : 1614344531

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Let the Faggots Burn by Johnny Townsend Pdf

On Gay Pride Day in 1973, someone set the entrance to a French Quarter gay bar on fire. In the terrible inferno that followed, thirty-two people lost their lives, including a third of the local congregation of the Metropolitan Community Church, their pastor burning to death halfway out a second-story window as he tried to claw his way to freedom. A mother who'd gone to the bar with her two gay sons died alongside them. A man who'd helped his friend escape first was found dead near the fire escape. Two children waited outside of a movie theater across town for a father and step-father who would never pick them up. During this era of rampant homophobia, several families refused to claim the bodies, and many churches refused to bury the dead. Author Johnny Townsend pored through old records and tracked down survivors of the fire and relatives and friends of those killed to compile this fascinating account of a forgotten moment in gay history.

Author : Marc Gascoigne,Christian Dunn
Publisher : Gower Publishing Company, Limited
Page : 772 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1844163423

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Let the Galaxy Burn by Marc Gascoigne,Christian Dunn Pdf

In this massive anthology, Warhammer 40,000 fans will find classic stories that have been unavailable for a while.

Author : Rachel Strauss
Publisher : Rockport Publishers
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-11
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781631598920

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The Wood Burn Book by Rachel Strauss Pdf

In The Wood Burn Book, Instagram star Rachel Strauss (@woodburncorner) teaches you everything you’ll need to know to master your favorite new hobby: pyrography, or writing with fire. This essential guide opens with a brief background to the art of wood burning, a list of tools and how to use them, basic techniques that can be used over and over again, and even what to burn and how to be safe doing it. You will also find a detailed explanation of the process from start to finish, with patterns and frames, techniques for lettering and adding color, as well as dozens of projects ready for gifting, including picture frames, cutting boards, coasters, cards, wooden spoons, and jewelry. Above all, Strauss has created the book she wished she had when she first discovered pyrography: a simple guide that quickly gets the reader successfully burning. With the right tools and a little time, you'll be able to create meaningful handmade gifts without breaking the bank. Whether it’s to create a family name sign as a housewarming gift for newlyweds, or customize baby blocks for a new little one, wood burning is the versatile hobby that can be used time and time again to create memorable gifts for all of life’s occasions. In addition, wood burning is a practice in mindfulness, requiring patience and focus to awaken the senses and calm the mind. Mastering the art of writing with fire begins with the ability to follow a line. If you can trace, you can burn.

Author : Denise Grover Swank
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798609888556

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Let It All Burn by Denise Grover Swank Pdf

Darcie Weatherby has a full plate--a preteen and sixteen-year-old twins, a wayward grandmother, a nightmare boss, and a manipulative ex-husband. The last thing she needs are hot flashes.Especially ones that start fires.But like most single mothers, Darcie sucks it up and deals with it, because what else can she do? The kids need to be fed, her grandmother needs supervising, and her demanding boss needs placating.Burning her boss's house down was a total accident.Honest.It doesn't take long before Darcie realizes she's running on borrowed time. Unless she figures out a way to get these hot flashes under control, there's a very good chance she'll spontaneously combust at the Founder's Day Masquerade Ball and leave her children motherless. There's no way in hell--or Perry's Fall, Ohio--Darcie will let that happen.Never underestimate the determination of a mother.Especially a smokin' hot one.Looking for more books in this HOT FLASH of a new genre?Check out these books available February 18/2020:KF Breene "Magical Midlife Madness"Eve Langlais "Halfway There"Robyn Peterman "It's a Wonderful Midlife Crisis"Shannon Mayer "Grave Magic Bounty"Jana DeLeon "Wrong Side of Forty"Deanna Chase "Witching For Grace"Kristen Painter "Sucks to be Me"Elizabeth Hunter "Suddenly Psychic"Michelle M Pillow "Second Chance Magic"Mandy M Roth "Cloudy With a Chance of Witchcraft"Darynda Jones "Betwixt"Christine Gael "Writing Wrongs"

Author : Charles W. Bowser
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015024903208

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Let the Bunker Burn by Charles W. Bowser Pdf

Author : Brent Runyon
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2005-10-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307276957

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The Burn Journals by Brent Runyon Pdf

Fans of Thirteen Reasons Why, Running with Scissors, and Girl, Interrupted will be entranced by this remarkable true story of teenage despair and recovery. “[The Burn Journals] describes a particular kind of youthful male desolation better than it has ever been described before, by anyone.” —Andrew Solomon, author of The Noonday Demon In 1991, fourteen-year-old Brent Runyon came home from school, doused his bathrobe in gasoline, put it on, and lit a match. He suffered third-degree burns over 85% of his body and spent the next year recovering in hospitals and rehab facilities. During that year of physical recovery, Runyon began to question what he’d done, undertaking the complicated journey from near-death back to high school, and from suicide back to the emotional mainstream of life.

Author : Heather Ezell
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-13
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780448494289

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Nothing Left to Burn by Heather Ezell Pdf

The autumn morning after sixteen-year-old Audrey Harper loses her virginity, she wakes to a loud, persistent knocking at her front door. Waiting for her are two firemen, there to let her know that the moment she's been dreading has arrived: the enormous wildfire sweeping through Orange County, California, is now dangerously close to her idyllic gated community of Coto de Caza, and it's time to evacuate. Over the course of the next twenty-four hours, as Audrey wrestles with the possibility of losing her family home, she also recalls her early, easy summer days with Brooks, the charming, passionate, but troubled volunteer firefighter who enchants Audrey--and who is just as enthralled by her. But as secrets from Brooks's dark past come to light, Audrey can't help but wonder if there's danger in the pull she feels--both toward this boy, and toward the fire burning in the distance.

Author : Steve Hamilton
Publisher : Minotaur Books
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250013194

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Die a Stranger by Steve Hamilton Pdf

The New York Times Bestseller Late one night, a plane lands on a deserted airstrip. Five dead bodies are found there the next morning. And now Vinnie LeBlanc is missing. Vinnie is a member of the Ojibwa Indian tribe and he just might be Alex McKnight's best friend. So Alex can't help but be worried when he disappears. There's a deadly crime war creeping into Michigan's Upper Peninsula, and Alex never would have thought that his friend could be involved. But after an unexpected stranger arrives in town, Alex will soon find out that the stakes are higher than he ever could have imagined. The latest in Steve Hamilton's Edgar Award–winning series, Die a Stranger just might be his boldest book yet.

Author : Franz von Suppé
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Operas
ISBN : HARVARD:32044040702250

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Boccaccio, Or, The Prince of Palermo by Franz von Suppé Pdf

Author : Ray Bradbury
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2003-09-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780743247221

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Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury Pdf

Set in the future when "firemen" burn books forbidden by the totalitarian "brave new world" regime.