Book Signing with Larry Johnson

Fabled is delighted to welcome Larry Johnson into the shop to sign copies of his book, Into the Fire: A Paramedic's Battle with Waco and the Aftermath! He will be in the shop on Saturday, October 10th from 3-5PM signing books, taking pictures, and sharing stories and inspiration with guests. This is a come-and-go event, but RSVP and let us know if you plan on attending, and reserve your copy of the book today.

About the Book:

On February 28, 1993, the radio call came in without warning:

"We've got a mass casualty incident. Multiple shooters. Multiple down. Head toward Waco."

Larry Johnson, NRP, CHW was the Senior Flight Paramedic for CareFlite Dallas when the ATF raid on the Branch Davidian compound at Mount Carmel Center went catastrophically wrong. He treated the wounded. He flew the dying. And he rotated on the medical perimeter for all fifty-one days of the standoff that followed, through the FBI negotiations, the siege, and the fire of April 19, 1993, in which seventy-six Branch Davidians, including twenty-two children, perished.

For thirty-three years, Johnson carried that story in silence.

Into the Fire: A Paramedic's Battle with Waco and the Aftermath is the first firsthand account of the Waco siege ever published from inside the emergency medical response. Every previous account has been written by journalists, investigators, or surviving Branch Davidians. This is the story told from the perimeter, from the back of a helicopter, and from the ground where four ATF Special Agents gave their lives on February 28, 1993. It is the perspective that has been missing from the historical record for over three decades.

But Into the Fire is more than a historical account. It is a deeply personal reckoning with what the work of emergency medicine and law enforcement actually costs the people who choose it. Johnson writes with unflinching honesty about the psychological aftermath of sustained trauma exposure, the weight that every paramedic, firefighter, and law enforcement officer carries home, shift after shift, year after year, long after the calls have cleared.

The fire at Waco burned for a few hours. The fire that every first responder carries burns for a lifetime.

About the Author:

Larry Johnson spent nearly five decades running toward the calls that most people never see.

A nationally registered paramedic and veteran EMS executive, Larry has worked the streets of Dallas/Fort Worth and led programs in Houston, Oklahoma City, Tulsa, and Las Vegas. He helped pioneer Columbia One Dallas, the nation’s first all-paramedic critical care flight transport program, helping shape the evolution of modern pre-hospital care. He was contributing author in the first Critical Care Paramedic textbook, served as adjunct faculty at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas School of Medicine, and held leadership roles with several EMS National Associations.

In February of 1993, he was the senior flight paramedic during ATF raid on the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas. What followed was fifty-one days that changed him, and thirty plus years of carrying what those days cost.