Engine 49 Devil's Night (ePub)

happening in Detroit when I joined the Fire Department. Mayor Coleman A. Young was the first Black Mayor (1972) and he had committed himself to change the Police and Fire Department become fifty percent Black. This action put a lot of racial tension in many Police and Firehouses. White flight was at it’s maximum, and there were many vacant homes being set a blaze for fun and profit. 1977 was the year I was assigned to Engine 49, this area became my personal ground to protect, while at work and, later when I got off duty. We received the highest fire service in the city that year. It only took me a few fires to let me know this job was for me. I loved fighting fires, cooking at the fire stations, living, and working in Detroit city streets. I would travel with my equipment everywhere I went if there was a fire I would throw on my equipment and run in to help. This is what I lived for there was no greater feeling than knowing that you are doing what you were created for. I had no idea what hidden plans laid hid for me.


The reason I’m writing this book is to show that in looking for a Career, there will be many obstacles in your way. The only way to find your place in life is to keep searching, keep learning, if someone tells you what you can’t do, don’t give up. Nothing is going to work out by itself, first you have to first speak it, and then do it, that is how the world was created in the Bible. There will be many obstacles in your way, but if you look hard enough you can find a way around them. If you search hard enough you will find what you search for, another Bible quote, seek and you shall find. I guess my real advice would be to open your mind to accepting a job not exactly what you want but in the field, because through the years you can work toward getting there.


Fire tales are just a part of this book. In this book is the way these incidents really occurred. It is also the way I felt when they happen. Real miracles that happened in these fires which opened my heart back to what I was taught long ago about God. There is