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Vocabulary: emergency services - English lesson

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 saved their livescontained the firefought the fireI don't know thanks to his intervention.

B) Then they were rushed to the emergency servicesraftsa fire stationI don't know and were taken care of rapidly.

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

D) A fireman’s duty is to climb the big ladderput a life vestput out firesI don't know and mostly to save people in danger…

E) After the recent earthquakes, in isolated areas the population lit a flarewent up raftssearched for survivorsI don't know for lack of firemen and professional first-aid workersfire stationsfire hydrantsI don't know.

F) After the emergencyrescueshipwreckI don't know, women and children with first-aid kitfire hydrantslife vestsI don't know, fought to remain on a fragile life beltraftfire hydrantI 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 hosesflareslife buoysI don't know to be capable of executing their mission when the time comes.