CALL THE FIRE BRIGADE: FIGHTING LONDON’S FIRES
Book ID/图书代码： 08430012B56459
English Summary/英文概要： Working as a fireman in London’s East End during the early 1970s was no easy ride. In the years before workplace health-and-safety legislation had started to exert its grip, Allan Grice had to cut his fire-and-rescue teeth without the advantages of a breathing apparatus for each member of his crew. Back then, the time-tested strategy was to ’get in’ - to crawl below the intense heat and ’eat’ the thick smoke - in order to locate a missing child or to halt a rapidly spreading inferno.
In Call the Fire Brigade!, Grice recounts his most memorable experiences as a front-line member of the London Fire Brigade working the city’s East End, with its myriad commercial premises, brooding Thames-side warehouses, seedy tenements and colourful cosmopolitan community, ranging from prosperous manufacturers to down-and-out winos with their body-warming bonfires in derelict houses.
Fires in factories, tenements and warehouses, and non-fire emergencies such as the Moorgate Tube disaster of 1975, are graphically described, while the elation of rescue, the sadness of being too late to save lives and the warm camaraderie of fire crews during some of the capital’s busiest peacetime years are vividly depicted.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 20世纪70年代，在伦敦东区做一名消防员绝非一件轻松地差事。在那个年代，《工作健康与安全法》还没有开始生效，阿兰•格瑞斯不得不为他的队员们切除强制实施的火灾救援装置，并且还没有相关呼吸装置的保护。当时的救援技术虽然是经过多年的经验积累，确实极为落后，它主张消防员匍匐进入火灾中心地区，一边忍受滚滚热浪，一边吸进大量浓烟，因为只有这样才能够准确定位失踪孩童，并有效止住如地狱般不断蔓延的火势。 《呼叫消防员》中，格瑞斯回忆了自己当年担任伦敦东区消防队一线消防员的种种难忘经历，伦敦东区---那里有难以计数的商业机构，泰晤士河畔的成片的仓库，破旧不堪的经济型住房；但同时那里也遍布着大都市的种种五光十色与地狱天堂，从兴盛的制造业到在破败的棚屋中紧靠火堆取暖的穷困潦倒的醉汉酒鬼。
不论是工厂，出租屋还是仓库里的火灾，抑或是1975年沼泽门地铁事故这类非火灾性事件，作者都对其进行了极其生动形象的回忆与描述，而当年那些成功拯救后的欣喜若狂，那些因为晚到一步而就此让生命流逝的感伤与遗憾，以及那些叫人动容的伙伴情谊，如今再次被生动地呈现在了我们的眼前，回想起首都伦敦那段繁华与和平的日子，仿若一切都还历历在目。（DC）
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About the Author/作者介绍： 阿兰•格瑞斯，从事消防员工作30余年，其中大部分时间阿兰都是在火灾高发地区进行工作与救援。退休后，阿兰成立了一家独立的火患安全建议咨询服务公司，自1997年起，他便一直在利兹大学进行关于火灾救援演讲的客座教授，并致力于帮助相关火灾法律的实施。除了本书外，作者还著有另外两部与火灾相关的书籍。 Allan Grice’s career in the fire service spanned more than 30 years, most of which was spent in the highest fire risk districts. Upon retirement, he formed an independent fire safety advisory consultancy and has been a visiting lecturer on fire, rescue and fire law enforcement at Leeds University since 1997. He is the author of two other fire-related books.
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