Dennis Smith most recently has founded in Manila an international social media website: www.wavepeg.com.In his 18 years as a New York City firefighter, he developed profound respect for the professionalism of the firefighters, police officers, EMTs, and nurses with whom he worked in the more than 40 alarms his engine company responded to every day. He witnessed their willingness to give of themselves in the course of their duty. The most important lesson about this dangerous occupation is to know that you can go one way and save a life, or you can go the other way and possibly lose your own. Prudence, experience and instinct provide the way.In 2001, Dennis, who had spent half of his life in the emergency service, and the other half writing books, responded to the attack on the world trade center, arriving there just as the second building fell. He stayed for 57 consecutive days, first in rescue work and then in recovery. In the following year he wrote "Report from Ground Zero" which rose to the top of the best seller lists. He has since written San Francisco is Burning, and A Decade of Hope. Of Love and Courage, a book that has its ending set in Manila. It is his 17th book. Dennis Smith's experience and reputation make him powerfully and uniquely able to represent the interests and needs of emergency professionals and departments. His remarkable career as firefighter, best-selling author, magazine publisher, business leader, and director of important youth serving and emergency-service not-for-profits provides him with a sound point of view about what is needed to make the world better and more dramatically connected.