San Francisco Is Burning by Dennis Smith

From 1975 to 1995, he was president or chairman of the Kips Bay Boys and Girls Club in the Southeast Bronx, where 9000 youngsters were members. He was also the founding chairman of the New York City Fire Museum on Spring Street.

He was the founding chairman of the New York Academy of Art. He was presented with the Legacy Award of Firehouse Magazine in 2016.ĭennis Smith was a leader in New York City and national charitable organizations. While serving as the editor and publisher of Firehouse, Smith also created the Firehouse Muster and Convention in Baltimore (now in Nashville). At the time, Firehouse was a monthly trade magazine with a circulation of 120,000 and a readership of 700,000 within the community of firefighters. He sold Firehouse in 1991 but continued as founding editor. The magazine became the journal of record for the American fire service and accorded Smith as its editor the opportunity to educate himself on most of the nation's emergency management concerns. In 1976, Smith founded Firehouse magazine. During the duration of his career, Smith lived with his family in the Orange County suburb of Washingtonville, New York, before moving to East 84th Street in New York City.

In the mid-1970s, shortly after his first book was published, Smith transferred to Ladder Company 66 in the North Bronx. Three years later, in 1966, Smith transferred to the busiest fire company in the city, and perhaps the world at the time, Engine Company 82, located in the South Bronx. He was first assigned to Engine Company 292, a fire company located in Queens. In 1963, Smith took the New York City Civil Service Test and became a firefighter in the New York City Fire Department. Early life and career Īccording to his autobiography, Dennis Smith is of Irish ancestry and grew up in a tenement on the East Side of Manhattan. After 9/11, he chronicled the 57 days he spent in rescue and recovery operations at the World Trade Center collapse in a bestselling book, Report from Ground Zero. Smith served for 18 years as a New York City firefighter, from 1963 to 1981, and is the most well-known advocate for firefighters in the United States. 82, a chronicle of his career as a firefighter with the New York City Fire Department in a South Bronx firehouse from the late 1960s and into the 1970s. He was the author of 16 books, the most notable of which is the memoir Report from Engine Co. Dennis Smith (Septem– January 21, 2022) was an American firefighter and author.

San Francisco Is Burning by Dennis Smith