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What's inside an ambulance? Who drives them? Learn the basics with this exciting book. The huge wheels, powerful engines, and loud noises of working machines seem to entrance children for hours. Now young students can pore over color photos as they learn about their favorite machines-inside and out. Each book builds vocabulary as it describes in simple language the basics of a machine: what it looks like, what it's used for, and how it works.

Describes how the equipment on an ambulance is used on the way to the hospital to help someone who is sick or hurt.

"How do the emergency services in different countries of the world rescue people? How do they travel and what equipment do they use? This series answers all these questions and more. This book looks at the work of ambulance services around the world, including how they take sick and injured people to hospitals and how they care for patients during transport." --

"Provides an inside look at the fast-paced, important, stressful, and often dangerous job of paramedics."--

Learn more about ambulances and the people who work in them.

"Beginning readers will learn about how ambulances help save lives . . . color photos and carefully leveled text will engage young readers as they are introduced to the features that are unique to this rescue machine"--