Firefighting
- ISBN-10
- 0789489090
- ISBN-13
- 9780789489098
- Category
- Business & Economics
- Pages
- 160
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2002
- Publisher
- Dk Pub
- Author
- Jack Gottschalk
Description
Provides information about famous fires, the fight to stop them, and their repercussions, discussing disasters including the San Francisco earthquake, the destruction of the Twin Towers, and the firebombing of Hamburg and Dresden.
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