Staring Into the Sun
by Nick Brunacini
Raw. Witty. Unfiltered firehouse storytelling at its finest.
In Staring Into the Sun, Nick Brunacini pulls you head-first into the heat, humor, heartbreak, and sheer absurdity of a 30-year fire service career in the fire service. With equal parts honesty and irreverence, Nick chronicles life on the line — from chaotic firegrounds to kitchen-table confessions — capturing the wild beauty and gritty reality of the job and the people who do it.
You’ll laugh, cringe, nod in recognition, and occasionally question humanity (and firefighters) as he lays bare the culture, characters, triumphs, and tragedies that make the fire service what it is: a brotherhood/sisterhood of deeply flawed, fiercely loyal, unbelievably human professionals.
Nick writes about firefighters and his department the way only someone who loves them — and has been burned by them — can: with tenderness, frustration, pride, sarcasm, and a full heart.
Staring Into the Sun isn’t a hero story — it’s a human story.
And it shines just as bright.
A must-read for firefighters, fire service families, and anyone who wants to know what really happens behind the bay doors.