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Into the Smoke with New York's Bravest

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Into the Smoke is a work of photojournalism and traces Tom Barry’s career as a firefighter—spanning parts of four decades in FDNY—along with the forty-year effort of noted freelance photographer Michael Dick.

The era covered in this book is best known in the fire service on the east coast of the United States as the War Years, the urban decay and social unrest that started in the 1960s and persisted, continually fed by arson for profit, into the 1990s.

Firefighting is a truckie blindly crawling down a smoke-filled hallway, searching for victims, hoping to find them before the fire does. It is an engine operator, calling on the last ounce of strength and pushing deeper into the apartment to extinguish the fire in the rear bedroom and beat the “Red Devil” one more time.

Fellowship of the firefighter
Fantasies from childhood intertwine with the terror of impending death, the pain of disfigurement, the joys of success, and the comradeship and respect of their peers.

Many of the fires depicted in this book predate OSHA personal protective equipment (PPE) requirements. This period was a fertile stage for innovation and development of firefighting techniques and equipment.

By Thomas Barry & Michael Dick

ISBN13: 9781593705718

200 pages/2021
9x12/Hardcover
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Into the Smoke is a work of photojournalism and traces Tom Barry’s career as a firefighter—spanning parts of four decades in FDNY—along with the forty-year effort of noted freelance photographer Michael Dick.

The era covered in this book is best known in the fire service on the east coast of the United States as the War Years, the urban decay and social unrest that started in the 1960s and persisted, continually fed by arson for profit, into the 1990s.

Firefighting is a truckie blindly crawling down a smoke-filled hallway, searching for victims, hoping to find them before the fire does. It is an engine operator, calling on the last ounce of strength and pushing deeper into the apartment to extinguish the fire in the rear bedroom and beat the “Red Devil” one more time.

Fellowship of the firefighter
Fantasies from childhood intertwine with the terror of impending death, the pain of disfigurement, the joys of success, and the comradeship and respect of their peers.

Many of the fires depicted in this book predate OSHA personal protective equipment (PPE) requirements. This period was a fertile stage for innovation and development of firefighting techniques and equipment.

By Thomas Barry & Michael Dick

ISBN13: 9781593705718

200 pages/2021
9x12/Hardcover

Reviews (6)

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Into The Smoke

Great book you feel as your were there! Great Photography!
Posted by Justin Call on Jan 11th 2023

FDNY

This is a nice pictorial book with a story
Posted by William Kebler on Dec 12th 2021

Into the smoke

This is the second book I purchased from them the first one New York’s bravest their lives on the line was a classic in my fire house Old school pictures black-and-white many were taken right on the fire floor crawling down the hallway with the guys the author tells stories of a busy time in the FDNY history during the war years in the South Bronx and Harlem if you’re into the job or just the history of the FDNY this is a must have book nice job.
Posted by John Barry on Sep 16th 2021

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SKU: 9781593705718
UPC: 9781593705718
Weight: 2.00 LBS
Width: 9.00
Height: 12.00