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Dennis Smith, RIP
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Fire Service Remembers Firefighter, Author Dennis Smith&#;
Jan. 22,Members of the fire service shared their memories and stories about Firehouse Magazine&#;s Dennis Smith, an FDNY icon and author of "Report from Engine Co. "
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Following the passing of Dennis Smith, the author of the "Report from Engine Co. 82 and the creator of Firehouse Magazine, the fire service shared their memories and stories about Dennis and reflected on the impact of a South Bronx firefighters on the fire service.
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I got to become friends with Dennis fairly early on and there are many great stories. He even tried to get me to fly to the Philippines (THE PHILIPPINES!) just a few years ago (where he lived for a time) to work on his latest project-internet services for firefighters. He never ever stopped wanting to help.&#;
There are many, many Dennis Smith stories-but one really embodies who he was-and how he loved firefighters.
Many people don&#;t know that he was the first chair
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Dennis Smith is a former firefighter, a writer, president of a financial services company for emergency services personnel, and an advocate for firefighters in the United States.
He began his career with FDNY in , retiring in
In , Smith wrote Report from Engine Co. 82, a non-fictional account of life in the South Bronx firehouse in which he served. It was a New York Times best seller, sold more than three million copies, and has been translated into thirteen languages.
He has subsequently written 13 other books (see below). A Song for Mary was chosen by Book-of-the-Month Club as the best memoir of Report from Ground Zero, was number two on the New York Times Best Seller list in March, He is currenly working on his fifteenth book.
Mr. Smith was featured very heavily in the BBC documentary Man Alive: The Bronx is Burning where he gave a graphic account of the life of a firefighter in the Bronx.
In , Smith founded Firehouse magazine, the largest circulating magazine for firefighters in the world.
Dennis Smith is a prominent leader in a number of New York City and national charitable organizations, serves on the board of the Congressional Fire Services Institute.
He was a long term trustee of the New York Police & Fire Widows' and Childr
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