Brunacini makes the observation that fire departments more closely resemble cults or severely dysfunctional families than a regular workforce.
Despite the graphic nature of the book most readers describe it as absolutely hilarious..
B-Shifter shows the world that the PFD is as human as any other department.
The Phoenix Fire Department was long held to be the cutting edge fire department by most of the worldʼs fire service.
B-Shifter is as much about how firefighters perform, handle and decompress from responding to life and death situations.
Whether itʼs pulling an attack line up a rapidly vaporizing staircase, a airplane crash into the center of a family\'s Memorial Day backyard picnic or standing by the side of a slime filled pool frantically trying to rescue a pair of young brothers, the reader is immersed in the firefighterʼs world.
The remaining 10 chapters of B-Shifter give the reader a ride along on a collection of the most exciting, twisted, heart breaking and adrenaline filled calls over a 25-year period in the city of Phoenix.
Firefighters describe B-Shifterʼs portrayal of the workforce as dead on.
The reader is brought into the closed world of fire station life and the wide range of personalities that a fire station houses.
Nick makes the observation that fire departments more closely resemble cults (or severely dysfunctional families) than a regular workforce.
The next two chapters are devoted to Nick and his brother and sister growing up in a family where the only logical end was joining the fire service fraternity.
Nick connects his fatherʼs zeal for improved firefighting safety procedures by vividly describing a diner fire where his father died for a few minutes.
Alan is world renown as one of the fathers of the modern fire service and a pioneer for firefighter safety.
Brunacini devotes the first chapter of the book to chronicling his fatherʼs (Alan Brunacini) 48-year career with the Phoenix, AZ Fire Department.
The first 3 chapters of B-Shifter are about family.
If thatʼs the kind of book youʼre looking for, my advice is to move on because B-Shifter will most likely disappoint you.
Most firefighter memoirs are painfully idealized and should come equipped with a bag-pipe soundtrack.
He brings the reader into the closed world of fire station life and the wide range of personalities that a fire station houses.
Brunacini makes the observation that fire departments more closely resemble cults or severely dysfunctional families than a regular workforce
