In Episode 417 of Mic’d In New Haven — The Best of The Bravest: Author’s Corner (Volume 87) — author Kevin Kubler dives into the realities behind his book on the FDNY’s War Years.
The 1970s brought a devastating combination: a fiscal crisis that crippled the city, rising crime, drugs flooding neighborhoods, and widespread arson-for-profit. Firehouses were closing as entire blocks burned. In some cases, it became easier to destroy and rebuild than to preserve what was already there.
“It was the perfect storm,” Kubler explains — a time when New York City was left to fend for itself, even turned away by the federal government at its lowest point.
And yet, from that chaos emerged some of the greatest fire stories — and some of the greatest firefighters — the FDNY has ever known.
A powerful look at how adversity shaped the department and helped rebuild a city.
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