Triumph, Tragedy and Tedium: Stories of a Salt Lake City Paramedic/Firefighter, the Sugar House Years
by Barry Makarewicz, Laura Howat
You will laugh when Barry's partner talks him into a death defying roof repair during a raging blizzard or when the pair respond to a middle of the night toothache or help refugees solve their emergency by unplugging their toilet. But you will need to be strong when the crew can't save a drowning toddler, family members in a vehicle crash or a teenage gunshot victim.
The book chapters are honest, compassionate and sensitive with compelling detail whether reporting the Trolley Square Mall massacre, a duckling rescue from a sewer drain or a fire response at the governor's mansion.
The book is written with special insight as Barry lives in the district he serves. Medical or fire calls can be for neighbors, friends or family.
If you want to know what it is like to be a paramedic/ firefighter, or if you want to know what happens when the emergency response system is activated, this book of true stories is a must read. Triumph, Tragedy and Tedium explores a variety of emergency calls from dramatic major medical traumas to the mundane minor assistance needed for the frail and infirm.
Barry's stories are captured in teamwork with his personal journalist and wife, Laura Howat.
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