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Author Rinaldi, Tom, author.

Title The red bandanna / Tom Rinaldi.

Publication Info. New York : Penguin Press, 2016.
©2016

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  974.71 RINALDI    Check Shelf
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Biographies  92 BIOGRAPHY CROWTHER    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Main Library - Young Adult Materials in Adult Department  YA B CROWTHER    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  BIO CROWTHER    Check Shelf
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Lower Level  BIOGRAPHY CROWTHER    DUE 10-02-23 Billed
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  B CROWTHER WELLES R    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Biographies  B CROWTHER    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Barney Branch - Adult Department  B CROWTHER, WELLES    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  BIO CROWTHER    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  B CROWTHER, WELLES    Check Shelf

Description 216 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [214]-216)
Summary The inspirational story of the iconic September 11 hero traces his faith-based life outlook, his decision to walk away from more lucrative career interests to volunteer as a FDNY firefighter and the accounts of survivors who revealed how he sacrificed his life to save people trapped in the South Tower.
One Sunday morning before church, when Welles Crowther was a young boy, his father gave him a red handkerchief for his back pocket. Welles kept it with him that day, and just about every day to come; it became a fixture and his signature. Welles became a volunteer with the local fire department in New York. When the Twin Towers fell, Welles's parents had no idea what happened to him. In the unbearable days that followed, they came to accept that he would never come home. But the mystery of his final hours persisted. Eight months after the attacks, however, Welles's mother read a news account from several survivors, badly hurt on the 78th floor of the South Tower, who said they and others had been led to safety by a stranger, carrying a woman on his back, down nearly twenty flights of stairs. After leading them down, the young man turned around. "I'm going back up," was all he said. The survivors didn't know his name, but despite the smoke and panic, one of them remembered a single detail clearly: the man was wearing a red bandanna.-- adapted from book jacket.
Subject Crowther, Welles.
World Trade Center (New York, N.Y. : 1970-2001)
September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 -- Biography.
Heroes -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.
Rescue work -- Biography.
Courage.
Victims of terrorism -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.
Volunteer fire fighters.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Inspiration & Personal Growth.
SOCIAL SCIEN.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Note Subtitle from dust jacket: A life. A choice. A legacy
ISBN 9781594206771 (hardback)
1594206775 (hardback)
9780143130079 (paperback)
0143130072 (paperback)
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