Bootknife and the rest of the Local Yokels—members of a volunteer fire service—find themselves in a weeklong stretch of structure fires. With this many fires being a rarity in Uville, Bootknife and his fellow firefighters’ skills will be put to the test. When they arrive at one of the worst fires they’ve ever been called to, three of the firefighters are trapped in a series of collapses on the first and second floors of the structure, leaving them fighting for their lives.

Although the incidents in this book are fictional, every character is based off a real person and some of the events are based off real events.