{ "item_title" : "First In, Last Out", "item_author" : [" Daryl Guianan", "Fire Out "], "item_description" : "Every firefighter carries an unwritten code. You feel it the first time a senior member checks your mask seal without being asked. You feel it when a mutual-aid crew you have never met falls into your line without a word of instruction. You feel it standing in dress uniform at a funeral for someone you never met, because the uniform makes you family whether you like it or not.FIRST IN, LAST OUT names that code and puts it into words for the first time - not as another tactics manual, but as the human infrastructure underneath the technical skill this profession already trains so rigorously. Across twenty chapters, author FIRE OUT breaks down the four values that hold this job together: Duty, the quiet discipline that moves you toward danger instead of away from it. Sacrifice, the real cost this career asks of you and everyone who loves you. Loyalty, the trust that turns a group of individuals into a crew. And Courage, the decision - not the feeling - that has to be rebuilt fresh with every single call.This book goes further than the fireground. Inside, you will find honest chapters on building trust before the bell rings, leading from the front as a newly promoted officer, and the mental health toll this job has too often been asked to carry in silence. You will find practical guidance on sustaining a marriage, a family, and your own body across a twenty- or thirty-year career. And you will find chapters most fire service books skip entirely: respecting the equipment that keeps you alive, financial discipline for overtime-heavy pay, the recruitment process seen from both sides of the interview table, a short history of where this profession came from, career growth beyond the next promotion, and the long, often under-prepared transition into retirement and life after the uniform.Every chapter follows the same practical structure: real-world grounded examples, professional tips, common mistakes, best practices, checklists and quick-reference tables where they help, key takeaways, and - critically - reflection questions for you and discussion questions to bring back to your own crew. This is not a book meant to be read once and shelved. It is meant to be argued with in the dayroom, dog-eared before a promotional interview, and revisited every few years as your relationship to the job changes.Inside this book you will discover: Why duty shows up far more often in equipment checks and paperwork than in dramatic rescuesThe difference between sacrifice and self-neglect, and how to protect bothHow real trust is built long before an emergency ever beginsWhat separates authority from genuine leadership on the firegroundWhy courage must be renewed for every call instead of banked onceHow to build sustainable resilience instead of waiting for a crisisWhat your family actually needs from you that the job rarely providesHow to mentor the next generation and know which traditions deserve to stayWritten for recruits still finding their footing, volunteers and career firefighters feeling the friction between the job and the rest of life, officers learning that command presence is not the same thing as leadership, and the families who love someone in this profession, FIRST IN, LAST OUT gives you language for what you already sense to be true about this work, and a practical framework for living it out, shift after shift, for the rest of your career.Whether you are pinning on a badge for the first time or counting down your final years before retirement, this book will meet you honestly. Read it slowly. Bring it to your crew. Then go live the code - first in, last out.Available in both Kindle and paperback editions, FIRST IN, LAST OUT belongs on the shelf of every station house dayroom, every recruit's nightstand, and every fire service family's bookshelf. First in. Last out. Every time.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers4.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/9/79/817/115/9798171154707_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "15.99", "online_price" : "15.99", "our_price" : "15.99", "club_price" : "15.99", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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