The War Zone, A Badge of Courage Summary

Captain Lane Haywood of the Compton Fire Department describes how there was too much fire in a building for the number of men he had to extinguish completely. He decided to get on the roof of the building to handle the fire better, but when he got up on the roof, he and his men found themselves to be the targets of gunfire. Haywood is not sure that the fire was directed specifically at them, but it was close enough for them to duck and get off the roof. He found out later the shots came from police firing into the air to move back a crowd of people that was rushing at them.

It took Haywood and his men a long time to get the fire under control, and while...