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Fire Trap: The True Story of a Deadly Fire and the Men Who Fought It
Fire Trap The True Story of a Deadly Fire and the Men Who Fought It Author:Sean Flynn The men of the Worcester, Massachusetts Fire Department knew it was a dangerous building: 266 Franklin Street -- a six-story windowless hunk of brick and mortar, its labyrinthine interior a jumble of narrow hallways and meat lockers lined with heavy steel doors, all identical to each other. — Yet on the evening of 3 December 1999 they would be fo... more »rced to enter in response to a three-alarm blaze -- the type firefighters love -- on a routine search and rescue assignment. Inside, they would find themselves trapped in a furnace of blazing orange heat, black smoke and poison gas, struggling to survive in an ill-fated ordeal that would push them to the very limits of loyalty and courage. This minute-by-minute account of an especially lethal fire vividly depicts what went wrong, and how the lives of these dedicated men - and a community -- were forever changed.« less