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 \nHeroes  \nby Kate Sinclair  \nIntroduction.............................2United We Stand.........................4Chapter 2  \nChapter 1  \nFirefighters at Work......................8Chapter 3  \nSafety in the Home.....................12Conclusion..............................14Respond to Reading....................15PAIRED  \nA Favor Repaid................16  \nREAD  \nGlossary/Index..........................19  \nFocus on Social Studies ................20  \n# Introduction\n\nLong ago,people needed fire to survive.They used fire to cook and to keep warm,but accidental fire was always a danger.Buildings in many early settlements weremade of wood.These small settlementswere often surrounded by forest.There wasno running water that people could use toput out the fires,and there were no firedepartments to call.A fire could destroy anentire village in just moments!  \nIn 1666,a terrible fire-now known as theGreat Fire of London-swept through the streetsof London for just over three days.Thousands ofhomes were destroyed,and many people died.  \nThe scary thing about this fire was that itstarted in one small shop.The city had narrowstreets and wood houses that were close together.The fire started on a windy day.The wind helpedto push the fire quickly across the city.  \nBig disasters like the Great Fire made peoplerealize that they needed to band together toprotect themselves from fire.  \nCHAPTER 1  \n# United We Stand\n\nFire was a problem for the first settlersin America.Settlers from England arrived inJamestown,Virginia,in 1607.In the first year ofthe settlement,a fire nearly destroyed the wholecolony.Almost all of the houses were burned tothe ground.  \nIt was not only Jamestown that suffered fromharmful fires in the seventeenth century.Therewere two big fires in Boston in 1653 and 1676.  \nPeople realized that they needed to respondquickly to fires.The colonists began to formvolunteer firefighting teams.Their purpose wasto fight fires as well as to prevent fires fromstarting in the first place.  \n# Fighting Fire in the 160Os\n\nIt took many volunteers to put out fires.People put buckets of water outside oftheir houses each night.If a fire brokeout,volunteers would race from home tohome collecting the buckets.They woulduse a long pole to pick up and carry thebuckets.Then the volunteers would raceto the fire with the water.  \nFire damaged many buildings in American cities.This building,which housed a New York newspaper,was destroyed in 1882.  \nThe city of Philadelphia was founded byWilliam Penn in 1682.Penn had witnessed theGreat Fire of London.He tried to prevent firewhen planning his new city.He designed widestreets and kept open areas of land so that itwould be difficult for fire to spread over largeareas.People were ordered to clean their chimneys  \nregularly.Many new","cbCaif6MTThqFh6F","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaif6MTThqFh6F","pdf",2895143,26,"English","# Comprehension\n## Strategy: Ask and Answer Questions\n## Skill: Author's Point of View\n# Vocabulary Strategy\n## Sentence Clues\n# Introduction\n# United We Stand\n# Fighting Fire in the 1600s\n# Firefighters at Work","[{\"question\":\"What problem did early communities face regarding fire?\",\"answer\":\"Early communities relied on wood buildings and often had no running water or fire departments, so accidental fires could destroy entire villages quickly.\"},{\"question\":\"How did volunteer firefighting teams respond to fires in colonial America?\",\"answer\":\"Volunteers collected water by placing buckets outside each night, then raced from home to home and used long poles or bucket lines to deliver water as fast as possible.\"},{\"question\":\"Why was teamwork important for volunteer firefighters?\",\"answer\":\"Collecting and transporting buckets required many people working together, and bucket brigades helped move water down a line efficiently to reach the fire.\"}]","Heroes - A Favor Repaid - Reading Comprehension Strategies & Skills | PDF",1790701209]