Last Alarm

<p>Last Alarm: The Charleston 9 is the heart-wrenching story of how nine brave firefighters died battling the 2007 Sofa Super Store fire in Charleston South Carolina. Life-endangering conditions combined together to create a 'perfect firestorm' ---a fuel-ladened furniture store that was a time bomb and death trap and a fire department at the time that was understaffed ill-equipped and far below national fire service standards.</p><p>The author Thomas A. Woodley a labor litigation lawyer who represented many firefighters and emergency medical workers for over forty years provides a factbased account of the multiple alarm response to the biggest structure fire in Charleston in 150 years.</p><p>Thorough investigations and well documented reports issued by federal agencies and a review team of outside experts plus firefighter interviews and media articles enabled the author to accumulate a wealth of material to shed insights on one of the deadliest fires in recent memory.</p>