Fighting fires and eating smoke

摘要

What is it like to be right there on the front line of firefighting and rescue?rnCalled out at a moment's notice, day or night, into the heat of the blazing inferno? The searing flames? The choking smoke? The heartbreaking losses and the miraculous rescues?rnOne man who knows exactly what this means is Allan Grice. A graduate of the old school ofrnhard knocks firefighting, Grice cut his teeth at the sharp end, learning his trade on London'srnEast End mean streets in the 1970s and 1980s, when 'fighting fires and eating smoke' was part and parcel of the firefighter's lot.