The Final Fire
But we were safe. I threw my arm around my little brother’s shoulder and gave him a quick squeeze. I then plopped down for a quick blow with my hot sweaty head in my hands
Dennis Smith’s novel, The Final Fire, debuted in 1975, and was a Book of the Month Club edition. My final fire took place a few years earlier, far removed from New York City and resulted in no books.
It is fitting, given the intervening years, that I tell the story of my final fire; a conflagration which also became my younger brother’s last fire.
Both my brother, Jeffrey, who was a few years younger than me, and I served in the Port Crane, NY, Fire Department, Fire Station 37 in the Broome County Fire and EMS Services. I joined in 1967 and Jeff entered training in 1970 and our shared progress was overseen by Chief Ernest S. “Ernie” Youngs (See: Ernest S. Youngs--a man for all) seasons, Canada Free Press, May 31, 2006)
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