Tom Swift Among the Fire Fighters; Or, Battling with Flames from the Air

by Victor Appleton

"Tom Swift Among the Fire Fighters; Or, Battling with Flames from the Air" by Victor Appleton is a novel published as Volume 24 in the original Tom Swift series. When a devastating fire erupts at a fireworks factory, Tom Swift rescues a chemist who has lost his precious dye formula. Witnessing the blaze inspires Tom to revolutionize firefighting itself, developing new chemical suppressants and an airborne delivery system to battle fires from above, especially in towering skyscrapers where traditional methods fail.