The Aberystwyth Fire Station team enhanced their rope rescue skills during a recent training exercise at Castle Point.

David Bodine heads back down the 100-foot ladder from the department’s ... and firefighter Wilson Packard practice their rescue techniques at the Barn Theater at UC Santa Cruz.

“We also sent out our assets such as three Fire Rescue Tender (FRT) vehicles, two tankers, one Light Fire Rapid Tender (LFRT), one Aerial Ladder Platform ... and offensive techniques as well ...

A series of dramatic videos showing a car improbably lodged high up in a building and a Chicago firefighter attempting a daring, if ill-advised, rescue ... on it from an aerial ladder.

Sean Eagen reminds that a ladder rescue can be the best/only option for ... via ground ladder 14 percent of the time, and an aerial ladder was used for victim 1 percent of the time.

If not for the drone, Malterud said police likely would have had to contact the fire department for a ladder truck ... a new era of crime fighting and rescue techniques. With drones at their ...

And while ladder company support functions on fires are pretty defined, in this article I examine how a ladder company can enhance a common hazmat team operation. Putting the Aerial to Use ...

Any given number of detrimental events can take place above the fire, which would require a rescue from the roof ... to be used in conjunction with an aerial ladder when dealing with higher ...

The drill provided the opportunity to practice rescue techniques used in commercial buildings. Firefighters ascended a ladder from CKFR’s aerial truck to practice roof ventilation and search and ...

In this article, I’ll describe the tree-rescue discipline and the ... If the victim is beyond the reach of your ground ladders and you can’t use your aerial ladder, you’re going to have ...