Bøger af Eddie Baker

More complex and imposing than any other vehicle in the British emergency services, the fire engine has a long and interesting history. The earliest water pumps had been developed by the eighteenth century - basic manual pumps that had to be hauled around by people or horses, and were often only used on fire-insured premises. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries horse-drawn, steam-powered fire engines, and eventually motorised fire engines, came to revolutionise firefighting, offering far greater versatility and the brigades came to be run by the municipalities. In this beautifully illustrated introduction, Eddie Baker charts the history of fire engines and their variants, and the increasingly complex equipment they have carried, such as high-rise ladders and high-pressure hoses. He also explains the wider history of the fire service and how the engines have been shaped by its needs and, most importantly, those of the firefighters themselves.

The most effective serial killer in human history-the opioid and narcotics epidemic-is stalking every man, woman, and child in the United States. Last year alone it murdered thousands. Even as we send the finest military and special ops on the planet to valiantly fight foreign enemies, we're losing the War on Drugs. Addiction continues to ravage America's communities, causing untold billions of economic loss and threatening our democracy at its root.Author Eddie Baker, an expert on the subject, knows firsthand the tragedy of the drug epidemic and the War on Drugs. Two of his sisters were murdered by drug dealers Nashville, TN. When his son became addicted to heroin and cocaine, he worked with the DEA to help bring down the drug dealers who were destroying his son's life. Battle-scarred and wise, Baker tells his story and shares his plan for winning back the soul of the country in this riveting and timely narrative.