Stormin' In

Stormin' InDrop into the front lines of firefighting in America, along the cruelest, angriest, and most dangerous streets of Miami, with the hardened firefighters of the toughest firehouse in Miami during the most violent decade ever recorded in that region the 80s, at Fire Station 1, nicknamed The House of Pain, during the Cocaine Cowboys era, three separate riots born of civil unrest, the Miami River Cops Case, the Mariel Boat lift, Affirmative Action, and

Drop into the front lines of firefighting in America, along the cruelest, angriest, and most dangerous streets of Miami, with the hardened firefighters of the toughest firehouse in Miami during the most violent decade ever recorded in that regionÑ the 80Õs, at Fire Station 1, nicknamed ÔThe House of PainÕ, during the Cocaine Cowboys era, three separate riots born of civil unrest, the Miami River Cops Case, the Mariel Boat-lift, Affirmative Action, and Fire for HireÑ a form of prostitution that came at a heavy price to the denizens of those neighborhoods, to satisfy the greed of the privileged white in Miami. A tumultuous ten years that Governor Graham called a ÔWar ZoneÕ, as MiamiÕs citizens battled the law-enforcement establishment that treated them like second class citizens. A decade that culminated in the shooting of my wife and my highly publicized arrest on national television, while we lived in the shadows, afraid of a police department drowning in corruption?