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Vocabulary: emergency services
Some of them are professionals, others are volunteers, yet all of them are "serving the population".
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 save sb/ stg from sth |
To rescue sb |
To save sb's life |
A rescue/ a rescue party |
"Help!" |
To call/ to shout for help/ * SOS. |
An emergency |
- 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.)
British expressions | American expressions |
A fireman | A fire fighter |
The fire brigade | The fire department |
The fire station | The fire house |
To contain a fire | To bring a fire under control |
To put out a fire | To extinguish a fire |
A fire hydrant | A fireplug |
A fire hydrant A big (turnable) ladder
The fire engine |
To fight a fire |
A ladder |
The big (turnable) ladder |
A fire hose |
ACCIDENTS and EARTHQUAKES, EXPLOSIONS, SHIPWRECKS and other catastrophes:
A life jacket A raft
To carry sb on a stretcher |
To dig sb out of the wreckage |
The search for survivors |
A flare |
A life jacket/ a life vest |
A life belt |
A life buoy |
A life raft |
A lifeboat |
A lifeboat
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* 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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