Last Alarm

The Charleston 9

von Thomas A. Woodley

250 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Themen: Geschichte und Archäologie Geschichte
• ISBN: 9781663243881
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 08.12.2022
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: iUniverse