Caroline Paul

Fire department. She worked most of her career on Rescue 2, where she and her crew were responsible for search and rescue in fires. Rescue 2 members were also trained and sent on scuba dive searches, rope and rapelling rescues, surf rescues, confined space rescues, all hazardous material calls, and the most severe train and car wrecks.

Her first book was the nonfiction memoir [http://www.carolinepaul.com/other_books.htm "Fighting Fire"] , published in 1998. Her second, the novel [http://www.carolinepaul.com/books.htm "East Wind, Rain"] , was published in 2006. It is based on the Niihau Incident, a historical event in which a Japanese pilot crash-landed on the private Hawaiian island of Niihau, after the attack on Pearl Harbor. She is a member of the [http://www.sfgrotto.org San Francisco Writers' Grotto] , a workspace co-operative that also includes Po Bronson, ZZ Packer, Tom Barbash, Peter Orner, Jason Roberts and B. Ruby Rich, among others.

Her identical twin sister, Alexandra Paul, is an actress, probably best known for her role as Lt. Stephanie Holden in the television series "Baywatch" from 1992 to 1997. Together, the two sisters occupied a single slot on People Magazine's list of "50 Most Beautiful People" for 1997.

External links

* [http://www.carolinepaul.com/ Author's official website]
* [http://www.readerville.com/WebX?[e-mail]2.2@authors/paul_caroline.html Bibliography, Author Bio]