Fighting Fires 1
49:30
Grades: 5 - 8
Video Description: What skills are needed to be a fire fighter? What kind of training do you go through to work inside a burning building? What kind of technology is available to help you? Join us from the Eureka Fire Training Center in Pacific, Missouri for this exciting program about how fire fighters train to fight fires. See the latest advances in thermal imaging technology. Learn what it takes to work inside a burning and smoke-filled building. Tour a fire truck and find out how they are designed from the ground up for the specific fire district that is buying it. The program includes excerpts from both live and pre-taped training sessions, a live tour of a fire truck, and, of course, questions and comments from students.
Type of Video: Program*
Unique Video ID: Infrastructure-5**
Quick Ideas for Using the Video:
- Invite a representative from your city’s fire department to share images and information on the fire trucks and other equipment they use in their work or see if it’s possible to tour a fire department in your town.
- Use the video in a flipped learning activity and have students come to class prepared to share two insights gained by watching the video and one topic they would like to research more.
*Programs offer long form exploration of a topic(s) in the area of study with single or multiple guests interacting with an audience.
**The unique Video ID can be used to quickly locate a single video in the ET collection. This search function is designed to let teachers assign students to watch a specific video and have only that video appear as a search result. Just click on Search and choose “By Video ID.” Then type in the Video ID as it appears above. Be sure to include the dash.
