Fire Department: Marty and Jetts' Activity Book


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Parents and educators play a vital role in teaching children fire safety and reducing the risk of child-set fires. This activity book provides children ages 5 through 9 with valuable learning tools about fire safety and prevention. It contains quizzes, connect-the-dot games, word scrambles, and coloring pages. To reinforce the lessons in the book, we encourage you to lead a discussion about fire safety and prevention for children using the following information and fire safety tips: * Help your parents place smoke alarms on every floor of your home. * Never play with matches, lighters, or candles. * Be very careful around fireplaces, heaters, and electrical appliances. * If you find matches or lighters, tell a grownup. * Always ask an adult to help you cook. * Know two ways out of every room. * Help to plan and practice a family escape plan. * Post emergency numbers near the phone.













USFA Publications Catalog


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Digest and Decisions of the Employees Compensation Appeals Board


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A collection of practical, inexpensive and easy-to-implement solutions to ergonomic problems, Ergonomic Checkpoints is an illustrated manual of 128 ideas to improve conditions in the workplace. Compiled by an international panel of experts, it covers the main ergonomic issues including: materials storage and handling hand tools machine safety workstation design lighting, premises hazardous substances welfare facilities work organization Presented in a unique format, each one-page ergonomic checkpoint illustrates an action for improving the workplace environment, why it is necessary, and how to carry it out. The manual also includes a complete list of all checkpoints to enable users to carry out surveys with ease. This book was prepared in collaboration with the International Ergonomics Association.




FEMA Publications Catalog


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Picking Tomatoes when the Sky was in Flames


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A Compelling Story of Survival, Love and Resilience. The spellbinding true story of a young girl in a close-knit coal miner's family unfolds in Germany during six years of World War II and the years that follow. Ursula and her brothers experience normal childhood adventures while the world around them is caught up in the flames of war. The struggle for survival comes alive in Essen, a city in the Ruhr Valley known for its steel industry, coal mines and manufacturing plants. This sensitive account shows war's effect on the civilian population in a war zone and their determination to rebuild their lives in peace.