Lights & Sirens; a Life on the Chicago Fire Department [first edition]

Lights & Sirens follows Pat Burns' career from a raw and inexperienced "candidate" firefighter to Cause and Origin Investigator, and follows his rise through the ranks as he crawls the smoke-filled hallways of Chicago's tough West Side. Later Pat's talents as a superb investigator and respected leader were tapped to help reorganize the new Office of Fire Investigation. Flames and arsonists, life and death, humor and tragedy were all part of Pat's career, and he chronicles them all in Lights & Sirens. As Pat would say, "There's no B.S. in this book! This stuff all really happened."