"Follow Owen as he goes to the fire station and meets Captain Reyes"--

Captain Kelly and his fire fighters must delay their delicious dinner because they keep getting called to put out fires.

"Who uses special tools and gear, fights smoke and flames, and helps people in emergencies? Firefighters! Find out how these helpers make you community a better place."

Little readers will learn all about what fire fighters do, where they work, and why they are important in our communities. Very simple text combined with correlating and colorful images will both inform and strengthen reading skills. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Abdo Kids is a division of ABDO.

An inferno of unprecedented violence and baffling origin devours a small Manhattan building and the fifty people unfortunate enough to be inside. Georgia Skeehan, rookie fire marshall is trying to uncover the cause of the fire and is sidelined by powerful insiders who both fear and ridicule her efforts.

"As a member of the North Cascades Smokejumpers, Alexia Allen always takes care of the equipment that keeps her safe. So when she nearly dies in a fire due to equipment failure, she knows something is up. Ordered to take time off while the investigation continues, Alexia makes a last-minute decision to recuperate at her mother's home and attend her high school reunion. Yet trouble seems to be following her, and within hours of arriving home she's...

Barnes, the supervisor of a Hot Shot wildfire suppression crew, is haunted by the season past, when many members of his dedicated, young team were killed in a Colorado forest fire that went all wrong, scorching the Hot Shots as they fled, some as they struggled into their fire shelters. He wakes each morning in the presence of their ghosts as they proceed across his bedroom or assemble at his kitchen table, their eyes asking questions that he cannot...

Inside burning buildings, Captain Caleb Holt lives by the firefighter's adage: Never leave your partner. Yet at home, in the cooling embers of his marriage, he lives by his own rules. Growing up, his wife Catherine always dreamed of marrying a loving, brave firefighter . . . just like her father. Now, after seven years of marriage, she wonders when she stopped being "good enough." Countless arguments and anger have them wanting to move on to something...

In this third installment of the critically acclaimed New York City firefighting suspense series, Fire Marshal and single mom Georgia Skeehan investigates a ferocious, deliberately set blaze that kills two firefighters and traumatizes a young rookie. She and her partner quickly find the suspect, a vicious arsonist known as the "Freezer" who has evaded prosecution for decades. There's just one catch: he's an FBI informant. The Bureau is using him to...

With the lights flashing and the sirens blaring, the firefighters race through town on their fully-equipped truck to reach the scene and make their next big rescue.