Myke Cole 是纽约哈德逊河谷的一名志愿消防员，曾是情报和执法人员，最近的著作是《Steel Lobsters：王冠、英联邦与英格兰最后的骑士》。去年七月的一个早晨，我被寻呼机在凌晨四点叫醒。我打开了汽车的蓝色紧急灯，飞速驶向消防站。
Myke Cole, a volunteer firefighter in New York’s Hudson Valley, is a former intelligence and law enforcement officer and the author, most recently, of “Steel Lobsters: Crown, Commonwealth, and the Last Knights in England.”One morning this past July, I was awakened at 4 a.m. by my pager. I turned on my car’s blue emergency lights and raced to the fire house.
几分钟内，我和另外四名志愿消防员到达了哈德逊河谷的一栋多层住宅，看到火焰正从屋顶喷射出来。
Within minutes, four fellow volunteer firefighters and I arrived at a multistory house in New York’s Hudson Valley to see flames blasting through the roof.