Firefighting Reflections, Leo D. Stapleton, 2007
Firefighting Reflections is Boston Fire Commissioner Leo Stapleton’s eleventh book and his first non-fiction book since the publication of Commish, in 1990.
Leo’s objective in Firefighting Reflections is to offer his own thoughts and his insights, his personal opinions about the many duties and responsibilities that are the facts of this most dangerous job and how fire fighters should conduct themselves in each of the six ranks the average fire department has in its table of organization. Leo Stapleton’s qualifications to write about these positions – ranging from fire fighter to commissioner-chief of department – are unsurpassed, since he served in each of the ranks during his thirty-nine year career as a member of the Boston Fire Department.
Written from a practical point of view, it is a hands-on, straight forward, no nonsense, no technical jargon-laced description of the expectations and the problems encountered in each firefighting rank.
Firefighting Reflections is the distillation of all of Leo’s other works, from Thirty Years on the Line to Deputy, and it will be an invaluable tool to help anyone in the fire service become more proficient in their chosen profession.
This book is a must for every Stapleton fan!
6" x 9", 230 pages, hardcover, BF5823 / $24.95
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