Last Alarm: The Charleston 9, a book about the tragic deaths of nine local firefighters in 2007, is now available for purchase. The release was authored by Thomas A. Woodley, a labor litigation lawyer who represented many firefighters and emergency medical workers for over forty years. He formerly served as general counsel of the International Association of Fire Fighters.
Thorough investigations and well-documented reports issued by federal agencies and a review team of outside experts, plus firefighter interviews and media articles, enabled the author to accumulate a wealth of material to shed insights into one of the deadliest fires in recent memory.
“I had the benefit of a collection of many sources; documents, agency investigative reports, court deposition transcripts, media accounts, and individual interviews with the Charleston Fire Department personnel,” Woodley said.
Woodley says the book “shows how life-endangering conditions combined together to create a ‘perfect fire storm’—a fuel-ladened furniture store that was a ticking time bomb, and a fire department at the time that was under-staffed, ill-equipped, and far below national fire service and safety standards.”
You can purchase Last Alarm: The Charleston 9 here.
