Last Alarm: The Charleston 9

By Thomas A. Woodley

Book Overview

Last Alarm: The Charleston 9 is the heart-wrenching story of how nine brave firefighters died battling the 2007 Sofa Super Store fire in Charleston, South Carolina. Life-endangering conditions combined together to create a 'perfect firestorm' ---a fuel-ladened furniture store that was a time bomb and death trap, and a fire department at the time that was understaffed, ill-equipped, and far below national fire service standards.

The author, Thomas A. Woodley, a labor litigation lawyer who represented many firefighters and emergency medical workers for over forty years, provides a factbased account of the multiple alarm response to the biggest structure fire in Charleston in 150 years.

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 on one of the deadliest fires in recent memory.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1663243883
• ISBN13: 9781663243881
• Release Date: December 2022
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"