Fire
Trucks
on the Move
Judith Jango- Cohen
To the firefighters of Burlington, Massachusetts
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Contents
Fire Trucks
WHEE-OOO! WHEE-OOO!
What is making such a loud sound?
That loud sound is the siren of a fire truck.
The siren is on the front of the truck.
A fire truck carries firefighters to a fire.
What else does a fire truck carry? This crew fights fires in Virginia.
A fire truck also carries tools called gear. The truck is like a toolbox on wheels.
This is some of the gear that youll find in a fire truck.
Look! A house is on fire!
WHEE-OOO! WHEE-OOO! Sirens blast, and lights flash.
A fire truck is on the way.
Does a fire truck speed away like a race car?
Fire trucks leave the station on the way to a fire.
No!
A fire truck is too heavy to race safely. A heavy truck must move at a normal speed.
Fire trucks drive at
normal speeds to help
keep firefighters safe.
The
Gear
Soon the fire truck is at the fire. Firefighters open the trucks big doors. The gear is stored behind these doors.
Axes can chop burning walls.
Pike poles can poke. Pike poles are special tools used to poke holes in a burning building.
A fire truck carries axes, pike poles, and other firefighting tools.
The holes they make let out smoke.
How do firefighters
work in smoke and not choke?
Firefighters chop a hole in the roof of a burning house.
A fire truck carries tanks of air.
Firefighters help one another put on their air tanks.
Firefighters wear air tanks on their backs.
They breathe this air instead of smoke.
Drowning Fires
A fire truck also carries long water hoses. Water flows through the hoses.
This fire truck has two different sizes of hoses.
SPLASH! SIZZLE! The fire fizzles out.
But
what if a fire is up high?
A tower truck has a ladder on top. The ladder is heavy.
It could
tip the truck.
Outriggers must go down before the ladder goes up. Outriggers are parts that hold the truck safely in place.
Outriggers help the truck stay balanced.
A firefighter moves the ladder with levers. Levers turn the ladder and make it go up.
A firefighter moves the
ladder of a tower truck.
This tower truck ladder is as long as two trucks.
At the top of the ladder is a big bucket.
Firefighters can stand inside it.
Fromthebucket,firefighterscanspraywaterhighandfar.
Firefighters shoot powerful streams of water from the top
of a tower truck.