Books with title Fire Engines Stickers

This exciting sticker collection invites you to take an imaginary ride on a fire truck—sixteen different ones, in fact. The awesome caravan of colorful fire department vehicles includes a floodlight truck, sky-life engine, ladder truck, tanker, pumper, aerial ladder, ambulance, and more. You'll enjoy decorating notebooks, lunch boxes, windows, and lots of other flat surfaces with these peel-and-apply illustrations of actual fire-fighting equipment. It's a fun collection for firehouse fans of all ages.

More complex and imposing than any other vehicle in the British emergency services, the fire engine has a long and interesting history. The earliest water pumps had been developed by the eighteenth century--basic manual pumps that had to be hauled around by people or horses, and were often only used on fire-insured premises. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries horse-drawn, steam-powered fire engines, and eventually motorized fire engines, came to revolutionize firefighting, offering far greater versatility and the brigades came to be run by the municipalities. In this beautifully illustrated introduction, Eddie Baker charts the history of fire engines and their variants, and the increasingly complex equipment they have carried, such as high-rise ladders and high-pressure hoses. He also explains the wider history of the fire service and how the engines have been shaped by its needs and, most importantly, those of the firefighters themselves.