Silent Alarm
ISBN: 9781563682476
Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / Gallaudet University Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters
Subjects: Emergency medical services; Deaf emergency medical technicians;

In a frank, quick-paced personal narrative filled with humor, drama, and grim reality, Schrader relates the day-to-day drama of dealing with human catastrophe as a firefighter and emergency medical technician on the streets of Atlanta. His deafness was almost an afterthought, although Schrader often had to fight discrimination in his job. With courage and without fanfare, he fulfilled his dream of being an EMT, building a 15-year career and one of the longest service records in the city at the time. The gritty and gutsy details of many of the calls for help that he describes will grip readers. Writes Schrader, "we expected the unexpected and when we were lucky, we helped those who really needed it." For popular collections.‘Emily Ferren, Carroll Cty. P.L., Westminster, Md. (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

Steven L. Schrader , now retired, continues to write in Lawrenceville, GA.

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