Fire Fighter (People Who Help Us)

by Chris Fairclough (Illustrator), Diana Bentley (Author), Alison Cooper (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  1990

  $119.51

  In this book, the reader meets Dave, a firefighter from Barry in South Wales. Every day, Dave and the other firefighters check the fire engines and practise using the fire and rescue equipment. The reader finds out about the different types of fire engine, how foam and water are used to put out fires and what happens when firefighters have to enter a smoke-filled building. The authors also explain what a fire hydrant is and how the firefighters use it. Dave and the firefighters visit a school and talk to the children about fire prevention and the work of the fire and rescue service. When they return to the fire station, there is an emergency call; the reader discovers what happens when the firefighters are called out to tackle a real fire.

• Used

  Hardcover
  1990

  $6.62

  This book is taken from a series which introduces the reader to people who help the community through the jobs that they perform. Each book focuses on an individual member of the featured public or emergency services; the experiences of their working day are used to illustrate the importance of their role in the community. Wherever possible, care has been taken to make those experiences relevant to those of the reader. This book is about Tony, a charge nurse in an accident and emergency unit of a large hospital. The authors focus on a particular incident in which a child falls off her bike and is taken to the accident department. They use this incident to explain various procedures: being X-rayed; having a plaster cast made and having stitches. By showing how Tony helps the child in this situation, the authors hope to make the prospect of hospital treatment less traumatic for other children. There is a dual-level text, to help younger or less able readers.