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 Job Activities
Camp counsellor a) Make sure people obey the law
Surgeon a) Follow and photograph tornadoes
Sports coach a) Operate on people
Judge a) Put out fires
Firefighter a) Look after passengers on a plane
Storm chaser a) Help customers
Flight attendant a) Supervise children at a camp
Secretary a) Apply the law in a court
Shop assistant
Police officer
Housewife
Who Brave

has to be
Organised
Creative
Caring
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Calm/not annoyed
Polite
Patient
When it comes to tough jobs, nothing beats being a smokejumper!
Smokejumpers are elite firefighters who risk their lives fighting forest fires in
remote areas. They bravely parachute out of aero planes into burning forests, where
they quickly get to work putting the fire out.
A smokejumper’s duties are not easy. They have to do long tough training before
they can become part of a team. Smokejumpers need to be brave and very good
parachutists, and know how to read maps to get out of a forest safely. “To be a
smokejumper you need to be very fit, and able to work for long hours in difficult
conditions”, says Zach Meyers, a smokejumper at West Yellowstone. They always
train and are trying to improve all the time.
When they parachute into a fire zone they wear a padded jump jacket and trousers,
boots, gloves, a face mask and a helmet. They also carry a backpack with some food
and water, and a fire shelter.
The aero plane drops the tools and special equipment they need to fight the fire.
Would you like to become a smokejumper?

If I were a smokejumper, I would/could…

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