SISTER in a BROTHERHOOD
ON THE BOOK SHELF
By John M. Malecky August, 2026
SISTER in a BROTHERHOOD
Stories from My Life as a Female Firefighter
By Cindie Schooner-Ball
Available from:
FSP Books
433 Main Street, Suite 2A
Hudson, MA 01749
1-800-522-8528
e-mail: support@fire-police-ems.com
Price: $16.00
This is a soft covered book measuring 5 ½ by 8 ½ inches and has 201 pages. There is a prologue followed by 17 chapters, an epilogue, appendix, acknowledgements and finally a page about the author. It is a story about a woman born into poverty in Ohio who eventually became a captain in the Broward County, Florida Fire-Rescue Department. The book starts out from her childhood and goes right through to her retirement and beyond. She got appointed in 1987. This book in my opinion is written in a completely honest way. It does not in any way look to compete women against men in the fire service. It simply consists of memoirs about her years in service riding in many different stations and various different neighborhoods from slow to extremely busy with fires, EMS and other emergencies. While I realize that memoirs are recollections of a person’s career with many experiences of calls which a potential reader might perceive as repetitious, I can assure you that although it may seem that way, each involves human beings and sometimes animals that are loved by others. A serious and fatal accident for instance is still a tragedy for the person or animal in each particular incident no matter how many we may have read about in other books. This book deals with calls that were tragic, near tragic, or otherwise. Some will stay with a responder mentally for years because we empathize with the families and friends of those unfortunate individuals and can imagine if it happened to one of our families or friends. In fact this book and ones like it should be read by the general public just to educate them to the fact that this work is not always pleasing. Much of the book also relates to a female doing a job amongst males and the attitudes that had to be dealt with especially at the beginning. Many of these changed when it was proven that a female could do the job in a professional way. The price is reasonable and the content educational especially for a woman considering emergency service as a career.
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