They write the report on everybody else's worst day. This is the one your family writes on yours.
A guided journal for the people behind the firefighters, EMTs, police officers and dispatchers.
Someday this book will have coffee stains on it. Maybe crayon. The handwriting will change too — a spouse at 3 a.m., a kid learning cursive, a grandparent who has waited up for two generations. That's exactly how it's supposed to look.
This isn't a book you read. It's one your family lives with. Pass it around the kitchen table. Be honest, even when it's hard — especially then. The nights you waited deserve more than a text that said "all good."
Whoever you are — married into this life, born into it, or the parent who raised the one who chose it — these pages are yours now. Write it all down. One call at a time.
The missed holidays, the scanner nights, growing up around a shift calendar. Fill it in over a season or over a career. There are no wrong answers.



A portion of every copy is donated to Bond's Path, Inc., funding grants that help communities buy AEDs and get the CPR training to use them.