3000 Degrees: The True Story of a Deadly Fire and the Men Who Fought It

Unabridged
Author: Sean Flynn
Narrator: Richard Rohan
Genres: History
Publisher: Listen & Live Audio
Date: December 2005
Length: 12 hours
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  • WMA
Abridged
Author: Sean Flynn
Narrator: Christopher Walker
Genres: Biographies
Publisher: Listen & Live Audio
Date: April 2002
Length: 4 hours
Ratings:
  • Book Rating: 3.5/5
Formats:
  • CD
  • WMA

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"On December 3, 1999, the call crackled in to the men of the Worchester, Massachusetts Fire Department: a three-alarm warehouse blaze in a six-story windowless colossus of brick and mortar.

Firefighters love the excitement of a ""triple."" But this was a different beast. Rollovers, flashovers, backdrafts, this one had it all. Once inside, they found themselves trapped in a snarling furnace of blazing orange heat as hot as a crematorium, with smoke so black and predatory they had to feel for their partners next to them. Swallowed deep in the building, with no way out, they struggled to survive an ill-fated ordeal that would push them to the very limits of loyalty and courage.

What happened next—and how their lives and community were changed forever—offers an unprecedented look at these heroic men whose job it is to rush into burning buildings when everyone else just wants out."

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  • Book Rating: 3/5

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3000 Degrees

Written by Anonymous on November 30th, 2007

  • Book Rating: 3/5

This is okay.....I couldn't help thinking of all of the firefighters who lost their lives during 911. It's probably a terrible thing to say...but there have been so many "disaster" movies and documentaries that it is easy to become desensitized to them all. I had to keep reminding myself that this was a real "story" about real people.

3000 degrees

Written by Anonymous on March 30th, 2006

  • Book Rating: 3/5

Liked the story. Typical format - here are the people - follow them into the situation - watch the impact of their loss on their families etc. Great description of the internals of being in a fire from a firefighter's viewpoint

Very haunting..

Written by Anonymous from Brandon, MS on April 5th, 2005

  • Book Rating: 3/5

Too many grisly details, the kind you hope are descriptions for people who survive against terrible odds instead of those that die brutal deaths. It did seem to exploit those same families it wanted you to feel sympathy for. But it was very educating, because I didn't know about the fire before. It also brought to life exactly what it takes to be a fireman, and how courageous those that choose that path and their families must be.

If you're in the right mood...

Written by Karen V on September 29th, 2004

  • Book Rating: 3/5

At times I didn't feel good listening to this cd. Something is off about the motivation for writing the book, it's oddly ghoulish in describing the slow deaths of the firefighters and is falsely sympathetic to the families. This book was scheduled to be filmed in Toronto as a major motion picture but Toronto fiefighters shut down production at the request of their Worchester brethren who didn't want the movie made out of respect for the pain of the families. However, this is the only book about the Worchester fire and Christopher Walker is the perfect reader, he has a trace of a Massachusetts accent and does a dead-on local Worchester accent for the dialoge. See what you think.

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  • Book Rating: 3/5

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