The gritty and gutsy details of the calls for help that he describes will grip readers. For popular collections. - Library JournalSilent Alarm is a book of achievements, manifesting an awareness that deaf people can serve in a field heretofore considered impossible. - Academic Library Book ReviewFor 15 years, Steven Schrader worked as a firefighter and an Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) in Atlanta, Georgia. There, he faced the day-to-day stress created by having to deal with nonstop human catastrophe, one moment administering to terribly hurt accident victims, the next talking down a suicidal person from a rooftop. Added to these difficulties were his own personal struggles, not the least being the bias he experienced because of his severe hearing loss. Silent Alarm presents his no-frills, stunning account of pre-survival in a profession with a notoriously high burn-out rate, and the good that he did as a topnotch EMT. Despite cautions, time and again he and his partners plunged into danger to save children, elderly citizens, indigents, criminals, and any other persons they found at risk. His hearing loss occasionally hindered him, and sometimes saved him, but, mostly, as it should, it became part of the background to the astonishing compassion in the stories he tells. | Silent Alarm by Steven L. Schrader, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters