Excerpts from the ChicagoTribune.com:

Matthew Drew goes to work in a building in the Lincoln Park neighborhood. It is a firehouse and Drew is a firefighter, one of 4,800-some other dedicated people in Chicago who share this precarious profession.

“I love my job,” he says. “There is no job on Earth any better.”

He lives across the city, in the Beverly neighborhood on the South Side with his wife and three young children and he likes to play softball and other sports. He also likes to write.

He’s been a firefighter since 2002. He’s earned a master’s degree in writing from DePaul University and has taught English composition at local high schools and colleges. He has taught firefighting tactics at the University of Illinois at Chicago and has served on the Chicago Fire Department Hazardous Incident Team.

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