Community Heroes: Firefighters
A Grade 3 social studies worksheet exploring the role of firefighters in our community, their equipment, and how they help keep us safe.
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Community Heroes: Firefighters
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Read each question carefully and answer to the best of your ability. Learn about the important job firefighters do in our community!
Firefighters are brave men and women who help protect people and property from fires. They also respond to many other emergencies, like car accidents and medical calls. It's a very important and sometimes dangerous job!
1. What is the main job of a firefighter?
To teach in schools
To put out fires and save lives
To build new houses
To deliver mail
2. Firefighters wear special gear to protect them, including a helmet, a thick coat, and heavy .
3. A fire truck carries water, hoses, and other important that firefighters use.
4. Name two other emergencies, besides fires, that firefighters might respond to.
5. Firefighters only work during the day.
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False
This firefighter is during a training exercise. Firefighters train often to be ready for real emergencies.
Use the words below to complete the sentences.
6. When there is a fire, people call 911, and the firefighters at the hear the call.
7. Firefighters use a long to spray water on fires.
8. Sometimes, firefighters use a tall to reach high places.