Unfallen Hero

A request to serve at another station, a quick compliance, and a natural response to extinguish fires and preserve life - when fire fighter Marvin L. Benton headed to work on the morning of April 5. 1993, there was no premonition that these routine events would alter his life forever. Trapped by a ferocious house fire as his protective gear burns from his body, Marvin finds himself first in excruciating pain, and then in a dimension of peace as the fire-engulfed building collapses around him. When fellow fire fighters finally rescue Marvin, the real battle for his life, livelihood, and identify begins. "e;Unfallen Hero"e; is a story of one man's remarkable faith and courage after the fire that destroyed 33 percent of his body threatened to destroy his career, family, standing in his community, and his sanity. Marvin is an impassioned storyteller, and his collaborator and wife, Valerie Eastman Benton, is a gifted documentarian and writer. Together, they have composed an uplifting, sometimes funny, sometimes painful, always sobering memoir that will challenge readers to live life with the provocative boldness of an unfallen hero.