The harrowing and tragic true story of one of America's deadliest wildfires and the men who made the ultimate sacrifice to fight it. Action packed and fast paced, this is perfect for audio.

First biography of the little-known real-life Tom Sawyer (a friend of Mark Twain during his brief tenure as a California newspaper reporter), told through a harrowing account of Sawyer's involvement in the hunt for a serial arsonist who terrorized mid-nineteenth century San Francisco

Hiram Lewis Lee, born Nov. 18, 1908 in Morehead, Ky., is the son of David Boone and Rinda Alma (Lewis) Lee. He arrived in Coos County in 1911. Hiram recalls Bandon before and after the fire of 1936; river boat and coastwise shipping to Bandon; delivering milk from the family dairy over plank roads in a coaster wagon; enlisting the help of Civilian Conservation Corps workers to save their barn during the Bandon fire; travel by stage from Roseburg to...

"Perform to an optimum level on the fireground by learning safe response methods based on the knowledge of how a fire starts, reacts, and escalates under various conditions. Straight-forward and reader-friendly, Fire Behavior and Combustion Processes clearly explains the key technical points of fire behavior and how each relates to the tasks involved in firefighting. Rather than an engineering-level text, this resource offers basic need-to-know information...

"Robbed on the train platform as soon as he arrives in the city, eleven-year-old Oscar Starling soon finds himself in the middle of the Great Chicago Fire when he chases after his thief, who is herself in need of rescue." --