When I started at Lookout Mountain Fire Department and later Idledale Rescue, almost all the services that did that work were volunteer. Like many volunteers, I fell backward into the job. The work is smelly, dirty, sometimes dangerous, and full of sudden calls, which wipe out planning the rest of one’s life. I loved it.
Welcome to the My Books page. My newest, On the Run, is a memoir of the thirteen years I spent as a volunteer firefighter and EMT, serving on Colorado’s most dangerous mountain roads and Interstate highways. I was one of the first women in America to join a firefighting team. It was published by McMania
Joanne Greenberg is an American author born September 24, 1932, in Brooklyn, New York. She was an adjunct instructor of anthropology at the Colorado School of Mines, an elementary school teacher, and a volunteer with the Lookout Mountain Fire Department and the Highland Rescue Team. Ms. Greenberg is best known for the classic novel I