fire fighting

Introduces the job of firefighter by explaining how firefighters fight fires and keep people safe.

Photographs and simple text introduce early readers to the important jobs that firefighters do.

"Firefighters" educates young readers on the way firefighters help the community. Details such as firefighting tools, vehicles, and equiptment, how firefighters put out fires, and fire safety are all discussed in easy to follow chapters and side-bars perfect for beginning or struggling readers.

Photographs and text describe the different types of vehicles used by firefighters, explaining each vehicle's unique purpose and features and describing how they work together on the scene of accidents and fires.

Using fine old engravings this book follow the changes in fire fighting equipment over the years.

Provides information about the Kuwaiti oil fires set by the Iraqi army as it retreated at the end of the Golf War in 1991, focusing on the efforts to put the fires out and the environmental damage that resulted.

Photographs and text describe the work of firefighters.

Explains the clothing, tools, schooling, and work of fire fighters.

Describes a day in the life of a fire fighter.