With new awareness and research in rope rescue safety, experts are now questioning the effectiveness of the non-tensioned belay. This article will examine pros and cons of this system, as well as ...

Rescue personnel used a ropes system to bring up a stranded hiker at Signal Mountain on Tuesday afternoon. The Signal Mountain Fire Department responded to 108 Signal Point Trail regarding a female ...

Multi-day training focuses on high-risk rescue techniques using tallest building in Grand Junction ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- Life-saving techniques and equipment are making a difference for the men and women who put their lives on the line to battle fires. A firefighter in Queens made a split-second ...

Clackamas firefighters used their personal escape systems to rescue a woman from an early morning house fire in Happy Valley. Heavy fire engulfed the first floor when Clackamas Fire District 1 arrived ...

Ten people with the Directorate of Emergency Services (DES) Fire Department completed 40 hours of training in the Ropes Rescue I course for technical rescue. The firefighters completed training on ...

Every day, emergency service providers strive to deliver better customer service to the citizens who they serve. These agencies also search for methods by which they can “do more with less.” Three ...

Members of the public may observe firefighters suspended from the roof and operating along the exterior of the hospital ...

After a man fell more than 30 feet from the side of the rock quarry at Greenway Farms and the Chattanooga Fire Department set up a pulley system to hoist him up, the department is urging caution at ...