Saving Troy is a compelling chronicle of a year with professional firefighters and paramedics in Troy, New York -- a down-at-the-heels, rust-belt city that is committed to changing its fortunes. William B. Patrick rode along with the members of the Troy Fire Department’s 1 st Platoon for eighteen months, and from that time he has fashioned a vivid, non-fiction narrative and a unique DVD that take the reader not only inside the action but straight to the dramatic core of every call that he re-creates for us – so close you can almost hear the heart monitor’s buzz.