Last Call: Sweat, Tears, and Beers: Thirty Years at the Firehouse

This personal memoir explores the evolution of volunteer fire departments into emergency medical services and First Responders, as evidenced by the history of the College Township Fire Department in Gambier, Ohio. The author served as a volunteer member of the department for thirty years, while also serving as a professor of psychology at Kenyon College. The transition from fighting local fires to providing on-call emergency medical responses changed the nature of these departments -- fundamentally changed what they do -- and echoes of that transition persist to this day.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Xoxoxpress
Published: 01/01/2009
ISBN: 9781880977286
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.67lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.47d