Dennis Smith Writer
Dennis E. Smith is a retired firefighter, writer and president of a financial services company for emergency services personnel. He is best known for writing the memoir Report from Engine Co. 82, a chronicle of his career as a firefighter with the New York City Fire Department in a South Bronx firehouse during the late 1960s and into the 1970s. Smith served for 18 years as a New York City Firefighter, from 1963 to 1981, and is an advocate for firefighters in the United States.