Rescue /
written by Claire Watts.
- 1st American ed.
- New York : Dorling Kindersley, 2001.
- 63 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.
- DDK eyewitness books ; 115. .
Includes index.
First on the scene -- Rescue stories -- Historic rescues -- Technology to the rescue -- Fire department -- Firefighters in action -- Trapped -- Air ambulances -- Ambulance equipment -- Emergency medicine -- Police force -- Armed-response teams -- Lifeguards -- Coastal rescue -- Ocean rescue -- Mountain rescue -- Air rescue -- International aid -- Animals to the rescue -- Wartime rescues -- Natural disasters -- Earthquake rescue -- Volcanic eruptions -- Environmental disasters -- Animal emergency -- Rescues from remote places -- Staying alive -- Space rescue -- Into the future.