Never Let Them See You Cry by Edna Buchanan

Author:Edna Buchanan [Buchanan, Edna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY/Editors, Journalists, Publishers
Publisher: Diversion Books
Published: 2014-01-30T05:00:00+00:00

You learn a lot covering fires—some things you wish you didn’t know. Sometimes I feel like I’ve been on the beat too long and know too much. I avoid flying when I can, and when I can’t, I wear no synthetics. Fire accompanies most air crashes, and I know that when polyester melts, skin comes off with it. So I wear cotton or wool and Reeboks. If I survive the crash, I can climb out and trudge for help.

I know that no fire department in America has a ladder that will go higher than ten floors, so neither do I.

In one city, I was booked into a twenty-seventh-floor suite. Hotel personnel could not understand why I insisted on something else, preferably on the third floor. Embarrassed, I finally confessed.

“Don’t worry,” the desk clerk cried, relieved that my problem was nothing more serious. “If anything happens,” he promised, “the fire department helicopter will pluck you off the roof.”

I don’t want to be plucked off a roof. I want to be carried down a ladder by a husky fireman.

Sometimes I think I am the only person suffering from this neurotic mind-set—then I remember Stu Kaufman on his fire watch, spending that sleepless night in his car outside his daughter’s slumber party.

Maybe we both have seen too much.

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