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"Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
(1896 - 1940)
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| | 3000 Degrees:
The True Story of a Deadly Fire and the Men Who Fought It
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| | by Sean Flynn
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ZIN Product Number: 10118182
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Hardcover, 245 pages
Publisher: Warner Books, Incorporated
ISBN: 0446528315
Release Date: Jan 9, 2000
Average Reader Review:  (Based on 2 reviews.)
| |  | | | From The Publisher
In the fading industrial city of Worcester, Massachusetts, there are men whose jobs are to brave danger, endure long shifts, and trust other men with their lives. Like their counterparts in cities and small towns everywhere, they are firefighters, and like firefighters everywhere, they take enormous pride in their brotherhood and their calling. On December 3, 1999, as the men of Central Street and other Worcester stations lived their daily lives, worked second jobs, and raised their children, they did not know an inferno unlike anything they had ever seen was about to put them to the ultimate test.The fire at Worcester Cold Storage was ignited by two vagrants' Christmas candle. When the first firefighters arrived on the scene, the building-a hulking, abandoned, windowless warehouse-was waiting to explode. As men fought to contain the flames with hoses, they were suddenly surrounded by confusing, suffocating darkness and searing steam. Worcester Cold Storage-with its mazelike layout and rooms so insulated that they prevented men from hearing each other's alarms-was turning into a furious beast, disorienting those inside it, seemingly determined to kill as many men as it could.
3000 Degrees stands with the best works of American reportage. Sean Flynn takes us into the private lives of men heading inexorably into one sudden shared, overwhelming battle. He captures the agony of working wives and mothers hearing the news with mounting terror and a community being hurtled toward unbearable loss. Most of all, he vividly depicts the moments of truth, when ordinary men know that their brothers are going to die, and that to live with themselves, to take another single breath, they too must be prepared to lay down their lives.
Author Biography: Sean Flynn writes regularly for Esquire and other magazines. His Esquire article "The Perfect Fire" won the National Magazine Award and was one of the most talked-about works of nonfiction of the year. He is the author of Boston D.A., an account of life inside a big-city district attorney's office.
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 | | | | | Number of Reviews: 2 Average Rating:
Eye opener
-- A reviewer, July 15, 2002
Great book
-- FF/EMT NBFCo, May 8, 2002
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