Pass It on

Billy Goldfeder

ISBN 10: 1593703198 / ISBN 13: 9781593703196

Published by Fire Engineering Books, US, 2014

About this Item

For his first book, Chief Billy Goldfeder, a 40-year fire service veteran, solicited insights and pearls of wisdom from our country's greatest firefighters, fire officers and emergency responders.The stories that make up this unprecedented collection share many perspectives of the emergency service experience and offer invaluable, often hard-won, lessons learned.Every firefighter, from probie to veteran, can find something to take away from these factual, real-life, first-hand stories, which offer a range of emotions-from wit to heartache and basic common sense.Chief Goldfeder is donating 100% of his royalties equally to the Chief Ray Downey Scholarship and the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation. Every contributor fully supported the benevolent mission of this book.Features:Introductions by Billy Goldfeder to each chapterChapters written by a very diverse group of more than 80 well-known fire service veteransExperiences of some of the best names in the fire service that most of us would not have the opportunity to learn from directly.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Pass It on
• Publisher: Fire Engineering Books, US
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1593703198
• ISBN 13: 9781593703196
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 735 grams

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Synopsis

For his first book, Chief Billy Goldfeder, a 40-year fire service veteran, solicited insights and pearls of wisdom from our country's greatest firefighters, fire officers and emergency responders. The stories that make up this unprecedented collection share many perspectives of the emergency service experience and offer invaluable, often hard-won, lessons learned. Every firefighter, from probie to veteran, can find something to take away from these factual, real-life, first-hand stories, which offer a range of emotions―from wit to heartache and basic common sense. 

Chief Goldfeder is donating 100% of his royalties equally to the Chief Ray Downey Scholarship and the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation. Every contributor fully supported the benevolent mission of this book.

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Read this first: Introduction by Billy Goldfeder

I have been a lover of fire department–related books since I was a little kid. My parents told me that I had really little focus on anything else. My school grades always proved that. My firefighting interest has been there ever since I can remember, and it’s true―I have very little interest in much else. My focus has always been narrow and limited to being a firefighter, related friends, a drummer, and (longer term) being a dad (and who knew, being a Poppie would become part of it). That was pretty much it...