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Vocabulary: emergency services

Their mission: help, take care of and save endangered populations.

They are rescuers, firemen/ fire fighters, doctors and medical assistants. They are called EMT:

(Emergency Medical Technicians) and they're here to protect and save our lives...

- To go to somebody's rescue

- To go to sb's aid

- To bring aid to sb

- To go/ to send for help

- To give somebody first aid

- A first-aid worker

- A first-aid kit

FIRE! LET'S CALL THE FIRE DEPARTMENT!

(999 in the UK and 911 in the US. 112 in Europe.)

         A fire hydrant                            A big (turnable) ladder

ACCIDENTS and EARTHQUAKES, EXPLOSIONS, SHIPWRECKS and other catastrophes: 

                A life jacket                                                                              A raft

 A lifeboat

On the same topic, see  the test and the test.

* SOS: an internationally recognised radiotelegraphic distress signal, used especially by ships

and consisting of the letters SOS spelt out in Morse Code: Save Our Souls? 

 Simply   ... - - - ...    meaning HELP in Morse Code! 

Let's hope we'll never need them; but if we do, we'll be very relieved to see them arrive because they'll risk their lives to save ours...  

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A) When the accident happened, an EMT immediately took charge of the victims and fought the firesaved their livescontained the fireI don't know thanks to his intervention.

B) Then they were rushed to the a fire stationraftsemergency servicesI don't know and were taken care of rapidly.

C) When firemen are called, they often have to carry people on stretcherswear life jacketsfight firesI don't know for long minutes, hours and even days…

D) A fireman’s duty is to put out firesput a life vestclimb the big ladderI don't know and mostly to save people in danger…

E) After the recent earthquakes, in isolated areas the population lit a flaresearched for survivorswent up raftsI don't know for lack of firemen and professional fire hydrantsfirst-aid workersfire stationsI don't know.

F) After the shipwreckemergencyrescueI don't know, women and children with fire hydrantsfirst-aid kitlife vestsI don't know, fought to remain on a fragile life beltfire hydrantraftI don't know and could be saved thanks to helicopters…

G) When firefighters are not responding to a call, they inspect and maintain their equipment, especially trucks and fire hoseslife buoysflaresI don't know to be capable of executing their mission when the time comes.