One Foot in the Black

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Kurt Kamm

Greg Kowalski grows up in Michigan with an abusive father, a Saginaw city firefighter. Cut off from his family, Greg travels to California to become a helitack wildland firefighter. He is tormented by the contradiction of hatred for his father and the need to have his father’s approval and love.

Greg moves on to the brutal LACoFD helitack training academy at Camp 8 where he graduates and begins work. He suffers traumatic stress after his crew is trapped on a mountainside in an explosive wildfire and his captain and mentor dies in a burnover.

The night before this incident, Greg’s father is killed in a fire in Saginaw.

Greg struggles to cope with these dual tragedies. He comes to terms with the loss of his captain, but has greater difficulty surmounting his father’s influence on his life.

The title is a metaphor for the life of Greg Kowalski, a nineteen-year-old searching for his place in life.

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“Kurt Kamm has been there with the firefighters, step by step, and you will feel in the pages of this book that you are right there in the middle of a fire storm as well.” - Dennis Smith, author of Report From Engine Co. 82 and A Decade Of Hope
SpecificationsKurt Kamm, 2012
6" x 9" softcover
255 pages
ISBN: 978-0-9798-5515-3