JOBS and the firemen who fought them
ON THE BOOK SHELF
By John M. Malecky February, 2026
JOBS
and the firemen who fought them
By Frank Saia
Available from:
FSP Books
433 Main Street, Suite 2A
Hudson, MA 07149
1-800-522-8528
e-mail: support@fire-police-ems.com
Price: $60.00
This is a hard cover coffee table book measuring 9 inches by 12 inches and has 217 pages. The author is a correspondent for 1st Responder News. I do not know him personally but see his photos in the New Jersey edition of the paper quite often. He is a retired battalion chief from the Camden, NJ Fire Department and has a full page to tell the reader about himself. He is an excellent fire and apparatus photographer who takes pictures as a labor of love which will be evident to every reader. A God Fearing Man (after my own heart), the book is entirely of both black and white as well as color photos of Philadelphia, Camden and other New Jersey towns within the area. Some of the photos include single shots of firefighters of all ranks with their names as well as groups of them posing for his camera. Many of the photos name the individuals in them. The photos are from all different times. One group is from the Campbell Soup Company which is in Camden. If you never knew that they had a fire, well they did in 1992 that went to three alarms. Sears Roebuck, a massive complex in Philadelphia also had a fire in 1994 that went to four alarms. Also One Meridian Plaza in Philadelphia (1991) in which three firefighters died is covered. The PFD actually stretched five inch hose into the building under the direction of the fire commissioner. The story of the “Fire Pole” which originated in Chicago back in the days of horses, is on page 95 along with a photo of the fire pole in Camden E-7’s quarters. He is a family man fully supported by his wife in living his dream and by his daughter who is a firefighter/EMT in Westmont where they reside. His daughter is featured in several photos on page 87. If you are fire service oriented you will enjoy this book where both career and volunteer fire departments are featured.
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