Friday, March 11, 2011
Reporter Week 1
In Working Fire Zac Unger the main character see's an ad for being a firefighter at a bus stop after some encouragement he decides to join. Shona Zac's girlfriend encourages Zac throughout his training at the training tower to stick with it and not give up. Zac's intructor at the training tower was Captain Gold and he pushed everyone thrugh by being really strict. Zac made some friends at the tower and one of them was Antoine he was a strong and smart man when it came to firefighting. In Zac's group was one of three women from the tower Mary Mills she made it up until there was week left then she was removed. Zac's mother always was nevous about Zac's adveturous decisions but she wanted him to apply for the job to be a firefighter. When Zac got a job at Station nine the senior firefighter Reggie gave Zac trouble about being the new kid. One man named Tracy came to Station nine to cover for some that left for the day and he taught Zac some more of what he knew, he also led Zac through his first fire. Alan a new person to Station nine but not to firefighting helped Zac learn to not take the abuse he takes from the guys that have been there and to not get into the troublesome routine.
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Ive read this book and your summarizations are a bit vague, but hit it on target. I loved this book and its intersesting to read these and see how others see the book/
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ReplyDeleteI think you did a pretty good giving a basic explanation of the major events of the book. i think that Tracy really helped Zac by telling him about the different tools and what they were used for. Also he walked Zac through his 1st fire and showed him what to do.
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