Police and firefighters may be on the visible front lines of a disaster scene, but communities require numerous individuals and agencies in order to respond effectively and recover. From scientists researching risks to public works departments or public health officials coordinating recovery, uncover society's hidden responders.

United in the face of peril, the brave firefighters, rescue squad members, and paramedics of Chicago Firehouse 51 are pulled apart by issues beyond their control in the red-hot fifth season. Firehouse Lt. Matt Casey and Gabriela Dawson work to build a safe home for their growing family, even as their life-saving jobs demand their full attention. Rescue Squad Lt. Kelly Severride risks it all, and faces the consequences, while the crew confronts monumental...

With the fate of several of the squad hanging in the balance, season six of this series reignites in a blaze of uncertainty. As the brave firefighters, rescue squad, and paramedics deal with the aftermath of each fire they face, more hot romances, pulse-pounding action, and fiery drama unfold every step of the way.

The Firehouse family faces dangerous new challenges this season as they continue to put their own lives on the line to keep others safe. They were racing to rescue workers trapped inside of a burning mattress factory. With an industrial boiler threatening to explode at any moment, can Chicago's bravest make it out safely before the blast takes out the whole block?

"Being the youngest of three sisters isn't always easy for Britt Chandler, especially when her older sisters have successful lives and hers is still on hold. She put everything aside to care for her dying mother, but now their mother is gone. Just as her life finally has a chance to blossom, her sister is ordered on bed rest during a difficult pregnancy, and it looks like God is again calling Britt to be a family caregiver--and nothing more. Rafe...

The Rescue Bots, Chase, Heatwave, Blades and Bolder, along with a family of first responders, must tackle all sorts of problems to keep the town of Griffin Rock safe. This task just got prehistoric, as they must battle Doc Green's pet Dinobot Trex, along with other fantastic creatures.

"Jay "Flash" Reynolds has a brilliant future as a trauma surgeon until a truck on a rainy night changes her life. Assistant chief medical examiner Olivia Price is more at ease with the dead than the living - at least the dead never lie. All she needs to do is listen to their stories. What she doesn't need is a surly new resident who would rather be somewhere else. Two women, one with a damaged body, the other a damaged spirit, challenge each other...

"Provides an inside look at the fast-paced, important, stressful, and often dangerous job of firefighters"--Provided by the publisher.

9/12 is the saga of the epic, nine-year legal battle waged against the City of New York and its contractors on behalf of more than ten thousand first responders who became ill as a result of working on the Ground Zero cleanup.

Epidemiologist Steffanie Strathdee and her husband, psychologist Tom Patterson, were vacationing in Egypt when Tom came down with a stomach bug. What at first seemed like a case of food poisoning quickly turned critical, and by the time Tom had been transferred via emergency medevac to the world-class medical center at UC San Diego, where both he and Steffanie worked, blood work revealed why modern medicine was failing: Tom was fighting one of the...