Faith, Family, and the Firehouse
A Fireman's Journey HomeBy Brian Bill Albano
Length5h 24m
About this audiobook
He spent his career running toward other people’s worst days. Then the worst day was his.
Brian Albano built his life around the fire service. Firefighter. Paramedic. Tower operator. Lieutenant. Then epilepsy took the job that had quietly become his identity, and he found out what he had really been standing on.
Drawn from the journals he kept throughout his career, Faith, Family, and the Firehouse takes you inside the calls that never leave a first responder: a little girl the doctors had given up on, a pinned driver on a bridge, a fellow firefighter laid to rest. Then it follows Brian home, where those calls followed him too.
It’s a story about answered prayer, and about prayer that seems to go unanswered. It’s about what’s left when the thing you were best at is taken away, and about the God who was there the whole time.
Includes a bonus: the retirement letter Brian wrote to his fire department the day he retired.
Audiobook details
GenreSpirituality and Religion, Biography and Memoir
Length5 hrs 24 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 1, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Faith, Family, and the Firehouse
2Prologue. The Bridge
3Part One. Rookie Years. Chapter One. Armpit of the Universe
4Chapter Two. The Code and the Lasagna
5Chapter Three. Six Seconds
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6Chapter Four. Nope
7Chapter Five. Anything But Spaghetti
8Chapter Six. A Lieutenant’s Eyes
9Chapter Seven. Negative, We Are Coming
10Chapter Eight. Expect the Unexpected
11Chapter Nine. Christmas at the Station
12Chapter Ten. My First Save
13Part Two. Becoming a Paramedic. Chapter Eleven. Third Time’s a Charm
14Chapter Twelve. Still Small Voice
15Part Three. The Precepting Years. Chapter Thirteen. Full Nelson
16Chapter Fourteen. Poo Poo Cramps
17Part Four. The Tower Years. Chapter Fifteen. You Shall Not Pass
18Chapter Sixteen. Oh Yeah. That’s Bad
19Chapter Seventeen. Good Hold
20Chapter Eighteen. Jedi Mind Trick
21Chapter Nineteen. Get Out of My House
22Chapter Twenty. You Don’t Speak Spanish
23Chapter Twenty-One. Double Magenta
24Chapter Twenty-Two. Shore Command
25Chapter Twenty-Three. Don’t Touch That
26Chapter Twenty-Four. Two Miles an Hour
27Chapter Twenty-Five. Words Carry
28Chapter Twenty-Six. On Our Knees
29Chapter Twenty-Seven. The One Time
30Chapter Twenty-Eight. Push, Don’t Push
31Chapter Twenty-Nine. Do You See Anything!
32Chapter Thirty. Yellow to Red
33Part Five. The New Lieutenant. Chapter Thirty-One. First Day as an Officer
34Chapter Thirty-Two. I Want Chief
35Chapter Thirty-Three. Thanks for Ruining Everything
36Part Six. The Iron 36 Days. Chapter Thirty-Four. Iron 36
37Chapter Thirty-Five. You Got This
38Chapter Thirty-Six. Double Pump
39Chapter Thirty-Seven. Commandeer Those Golf Carts
40Chapter Thirty-Eight. Sinking Slowly
41Chapter Thirty-Nine. He’s Coming Back
42Part Seven. When It Hit Home. Chapter Forty. The Phone Call
43Chapter Forty-One. Déjà Vu
44Part Eight. The Storm and Letting Go. Chapter Forty-Two. The Storm
45Chapter Forty-Three. If I Don’t Move It, They Both Die
46Chapter Forty-Four. A Different Kind of Heat
47Chapter Forty-Five. In the Palm of His Hand
48Chapter Forty-Six. Bella Vista
49Chapter Forty-Seven. Not Low Enough
50Chapter Forty-Eight. Watching the Flowers Grow
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