Ruby Sisson Library

This book describes many kinds of fires and discusses firefighters and their equipment and safer materials that do not burn easily.

When Nina's antique store burns down, nine-year old reporter Hilde and her sister/photographer, Izzy, are determined to investigate the cause for the Orange Street News--and their main clue is a bird's nest of baby Blue jays.

After a fire at Starlight Animal Rescue, Hank questions his the ability to rescue anything.

Provides information about famous fires, the fight to stop them, and their repercussions, discussing disasters including the San Francisco earthquake, the destruction of the Twin Towers, and the firebombing of Hamburg and Dresden

Rhymed text and illustrations show what happened at a tea party when a friendly dragon sneezed. Includes a fire safety rhyme and a checklist of things to be prepared to do in case of fire.

Four high school yearbook-committee members struggle to understand and appropriately document a horrific school shooting in a suburban St. Louis town that is also being terrorized by mysterious house fires at the homes of the victims.--

Reuben, an Amish boy with five sisters, witnesses the burning of a neighbor's barn and experiences the excitement of the barn raising that follows.

This book explains the fire triangle, prescribed burns in ecosystems, and what can be done to prevent and control wildfires.

When lawyer Hunter Lee leaves the New York City rat race that made him rich but cost him his marriage, he sets out to build a new life in Fort Mason, Montana. His friend Paul Brule, a Fire Jumper, shows him the reality of vast tracts of forest reduced to ash in seconds by hundred-foot walls of flame. Hunter comes to suspect that this particualr rash of summer fires is anything but accidental and could be serving a more sinister purpose. -- from publisher...

This is the story of the San Francisco earthquake of 1906: It contains never before published documents of the insurance companies, the military, and the Red Cross to tear away the myths and expose the real villains and heroes The last big earthquake in the United States came at 5:13 a.m. on April 18, 1906, in San Francisco. No one knows when the next, even more devastating earthquake will come to San Francisco, but one will come. Gordon Thomas and...