Strong of Heart: Life and Death in the Fire Department of New York Book

	Acknowledgments	xi
	Foreword	xiii
	Prologue: Sunday, January 6, 2002	1
Part 1	This is War
1	Can You Talk About the Loss?	11
2	Is That a Cloud?	15
3	These Buildings Can Collapse	21
4	The Whole Tower Came Down	27
5	From Box Cutters to All This	37
6	This Is the Taste of Death	43
7	Could Anyone Really Be Alive in There?	51
8	Will Determination Be Enough?	57
Part 2	A Firefighter at Heart
9	To the Firehouse Door	63
10	The Source of the Fire	75
11	La Casa del Elefante	87
12	The Union Politics Were a Killer	99
13	A Gamble Pays Off	111
14	The City's Thirtieth Fire Commissioner	123
15	Saints and Sinners	135
16	The Atlantic Avenue Fire	145
17	Don't You Give Up	153
18	It's Either Outstanding or Unacceptable	163
19	The Father's Day Fire	179
Part 3	Be Not Afraid
20	September 12	195
21	A Lift from the President	211
22	This Isn't Your Fault	219
23	At All Ranks, We Are Vulnerable	223
24	Recovery Efforts	235
25	Emotions Are Very, Very High	251
26	Don't Say It ... They Aren't Ready	261
27	You Can Always Be Called	275
	A Silent and Solemn Good-bye: The Site, May 30, 2002	287