What makes a great story, is left completely up to the reader’s imagination and interests.  The NW Fire Blog’s creator is beginning to make small waves in the writing world, sharing your stories inspired by your experiences and professions. 

As you know, not everyone is cut out for the careers you all have chosen in the Fire, EMS and Law Enforcement professions.  So, for us civilian and non-LE writers – the next best thing to sharing great stories, is to live through your eyes. This has always been our goal to share stories, both good and the Heroes that have left us impacted our lives with the Legacies they leave behind.

Readers, both young and old, always love to hear how firefighters, EMS First Responders and police officers & dispatchers live, work and play.  And, boy do we know this – as we hear it all the time!  For the time, training and commitment you put on the line to protect and serve us is amazing – and, I know, sometimes it can be a thankless job. 

So, here’s our chance to exploit the great work and accomplishments you all do/have done and those who just appreciate you as much as we do!  Get our pens and paper and start jotting the amazing experiences, stories and saves you have had through your career or the struggles you have endured being a new recruit and what obstacles you have overcome to start living “your” dream job.  Readers will have a front row to living through eyes in your profession.  You’d be surprised how many people would be amazed by what you do!

The NW Fire Blog’s Creator, LR Swenson, has a current short story, Seattle Mourn, about four of Seattle’s Firefighters who perished in an arson fire in 1995.  Though things didn’t go as planned, their stories deserve to be told and sharing their Leagacy as firefighters and that fateful day is so important.  Firefighting has evolved for the better from this terrible tragedy.  It is dedicated to the firefighters who all worked together on that day to attempt to tap that huge fire to the Legacies left behind by the firefighters who lost their lives along the way.  It will be published under Felons, Flames and Ambulances, a collection of stories written by well renown authors in the Public Safety profession.  Many have published many titles in their career and for us to have our short published in this anthology is a great honor.  See our title, Felons, Flames and Ambulances.  Summer 2013 by Oak Tree Press.

More stories are in the works and we are looking to submit these stories for publishing.  Constantly, we are inspired by the great work you do on and off the fireground, on the road and in the field on a regular basis.  We are currently looking for stories that we would be able to put together in a collection by each profession.  If we include your story, we will list your name (unless you want to remain anoynomously)/rank/agency [you will have complete control of the ID information listed]. 

Three titles we are writing under are “Through the Eyes of a Firefighter”, “In the Life and Day in EMS” and “In The Line of Duty” [police officer].  By the time, they are submitted for editing and publishing, the titles may slightly be changed to fit the content presented.

Drop us a line and share your story with us.  There is no deadline, so please don’t feel like you have to rush, but we definitely want to start acquiring these stories right away.

Remember, this fire blog was created in honor of you all for the hard work, dedication and commitment that you continue to do every day. 

Contact us:

nwfireblog@yahoo.com Email

NW Fire Blog – FaceBook

All stories must in word document or pdf format.  Please keep them fairly clean [We don’t want to read your porn story] and free of  excessive vulgar language.  Our target audience is PG and max R with some minor language and minor violence.  Remember, who you want to read this material – if it isnt something that you want your kids to read, then it probably won’t be appropriate for our kids.

Thank you – now, let’s see what you got!

(c) 2013 The NW Fire Blog