When seventeen-year-old Josephine Reynolds signed up to the Norfolk Fire Service in 1982, there was no such thing as a firefighter - only fireMEN. Nevertheless, she was determined to stick it out. From the gruelling fifteen months of training - wrestling 25-metre thrashing, water-spurting hoses, and manoeuvring through pitch-dark, smoke-filled rooms - to her years on the job as a fully-fledged firefighter - tackling forest fires, escaped zoo animals and unexploded bombs - she tells the story of the exhaustion and exhilaration, the grief and camaraderie, of her career with Britain's Fire Service.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
F. A. Thorpe (Publishers)
ISBN-13
9781444834451
eBay Product ID (ePID)
239430093
Product Key Features
Book Title
Fire Woman
Author
Josephine Reynolds
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2017
Genre
Biographies & True Stories
Number of Pages
294 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
229mm
Item Width
148mm
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Josephine Reynolds
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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