For example, this year, CMC introduced its CAPTO, which is a multipurpose, integrated pulley/rope grab device ... proficiency in hazmat, EMS, rescue, throwing ladders, fighting fire, customer ...

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 ... "With any rope rescue, it's very manpower ...

We train quite a lot, and rope ... ladders to the upper floors, but saw multiple people in the upper windows trying to climb down on their own. The FDNY conducts roughly one rope rescue a year ...

The training covered high-risk, low-frequency rescue scenarios involving heights beyond the reach of ladder trucks ... which built on pre-requisite rope rescue classes, introduced firefighters ...

Essen, Germany - Police and fire crews on Christmas Eve had to rescue a scantily-clad woman ... Climbing down a fire truck ladder, the shivering but relieved 34-year-old Essen resident explained ...

In order to extricate the patient from the steep terrain, crews had to utilize a rope ... heavy rescue squad, while a change of direction was made using an anchor point on the side of a ladder ...

An FDNY firefighter who risked it all to rappel down the side of a burning Harlem building and save a man trying to escape the flames will be honored with the department’s most prestigious award, ...