Red Flag Warning
Red Flag Warning is a SERIAL ARSON MYSTERY. Los Angeles County is burning. A serial arsonist is setting the parched hills on fire. Plunge into infernos and face the smoke, heat and danger with the men on the fire lines. While NiteHeat prowls in the darkness, setting fires and taunting investigators, the Los Angeles County Fire Department's Arson Unit struggles to find the fire-setter and stop the devastation.
Red Flag Warning was awarded First Place in the Infinite Writer 2010 Mystery Fiction Category and Honorable Mention in the 2010 Public Safety Writer's Contest.
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One Foot in the Black
A Novel About Wildland Firefighters
Driven from home by an abusive father, Greg Kowalski heads west to California to become a seasonal firefighter. As he struggles to build a new life, Greg comes of age when his helitak crew faces a fatal firestorm.
Greg moves on to the brutal LACoFD Helitak training academy at Camp 8 where he graduates and begins work. He suffers traumatic stress after his crew is trapped on a mountainside in an explosive wildfire in which his captain and mentor dies. The night before this incident, Greg's father is killed in a fire in Saginaw. Greg struggles to cope with these dual tragedies.
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Praise for One Foot in the Black:
“This is what we do. The real thing!”
—Capt. Larry Tucker, LA County Fire Dept.
“An exciting & emotional tale of wildland firefighters”
—Melissa Schwagerl, Wildland Firefighter Foundation
“A wonderful story, I didn't want the book to end”
—Paul Sans, Battalion Chief, CalFire
Author Kurt Kamm lives in Malibu, CA, a place of beauty and destructive wildfires. In 2007, the Canyon Fire, a 70 mile-per-hour wind driven inferno, burned to Kurt's front door.
He has attended Los Angeles County Fire Department and CalFire academies and is a frequent visitor to the fire camps and stations in Southern California.
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Praise for Red Flag Warning:
“Puts the reader inside the mind of the arsonist and the investigator.
Well researched and documented ...
a great read”
—Thomas Dutton, Battalion Chief,
LA County Fire Dept., former Captain Arson/Fire Investigation Unit
“NiteHeat is memorable – another lunatic out setting fires.”
—Mike Cole, CalFire Battalion Chief,
Law Enforcement, Retired
“Enough suspects and false leads to keep even a cop guessing”
—George Kasparek, Los Angeles Police Department, Retired
Light the Fire, in my weary soul ....
C'mon Baby Light my fire ....
Light the fire again ....
Flames. On the side of my face.
Burning, breathing, breathless flames.
