Transportation Disaster Alert!

Description: Transportation Disaster Alert! uses historic black and white images and contemporary photographs to chronicle the history of many famous disasters, including train wrecks, air crashes, and ship collisions. A section on how to make distress calls gives readers an understanding of how such a disaster might unfold. Topics include - causes of transportation disasters - types of disasters, such as shipwrecks, derailments, and plane crashes - reaction to transportation disasters, and who helps and responds - famous catastrophes, such as the Hindenberg, the Titanic, the space shuttle and the hijacking of planes on September 11 - the aftermath of disaster and how recovery takes place - safety measures to help avoid disasters

Review Quotes: "The focus of this inherently fascinating introduction to the science that lies behind the creation of various natural disasters is what makes this series have a particularly recommended appeal for family, school and community library... Enhanced with full color photography and illustrative drawings, each individual title also informs the readers about the people who study, forecast, and observe these phenomena in action; how to stay safe during a natural disaster (including what goes into an emergency kit); and provides a simple activity or suggestion for their own observations."