Braving the Waves

Braving the Waves: Rockaway Rises -- and Rises Again (Rising Star Press, 2002) is an account, written by Kevin Boyle, of the response by residents of the Rockaway Peninsula, many of them firefighters, to the World Trade Center attack of September 11, 2001, and to the crash of American Airlines Flight 587 over Belle Harbor two months later on November 12, 2001. The account contains many personal accounts of Rockawayites, and is liberally interspersed with historical interludes dealing with many times that Rockaway had been devastated by fire and how her citizens and summer residents had met the adversity.