Last Alarm (eBook)

The Charleston 9

Thomas A. Woodley (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022
250 Seiten
iUniverse (Verlag)
978-1-6632-4386-7 (ISBN)

Infos

Last Alarm: The Charleston 9 is the heart-wrenching story of how nine brave firefighters died battling the 2007 Sofa Super Store fire in Charleston, South Carolina. Life-endangering conditions combined together to create a 'perfect firestorm' ---a fuel-ladened furniture store that was a time bomb and death trap, and a fire department at the time that was understaffed, ill-equipped, and far below national fire service standards.The author, Thomas A. Woodley, a labor litigation lawyer who represented many firefighters and emergency medical workers for over forty years, provides a factbased account of the multiple alarm response to the biggest structure fire in Charleston in 150 years.Thorough investigations and well documented reports issued by federal agencies and a review team of outside experts, plus firefighter interviews and media articles, enabled the author to accumulate a wealth of material to shed insights on one of the deadliest fires in recent memory.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.12.2022
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Regional- / Landesgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Schlagworte: Charleston 9 • Charleston fire • Charleston Fire Department • Firefighter line-of duty deaths • PTSD in the fire service • Sofa Super Store fire
• ISBN-10: 1-6632-4386-7 / 1663243867
• ISBN-13: 978-1-6632-4386-7 / 9781663243867