For every organization, continually evaluating mission and purpose is imperative. It’s easy to get off track or diluted in staying true to your primary objective. When it comes to rope rescue, there’s ...

All belay lines must be connected dorsally to a Class 3 harness. All knots require safeties. Two-tensioned rope systems solve all problems. All technical rescues and trainings that were conducted over ...

CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. – On Sept. 26 and 27, approximately 20 Letterkenny Army Depot firefighters joined several Chambersburg Fire Department firefighters to complete a rope rescue training course in ...

But you are welcome to join a group working in the community starting next week—or even today. SOLVE has a half-dozen events planned, with many openings available, including a frontage road cleanup ...

The 6-hour rescue of an unconscious hiker from the bottom of a steep cliff at Palouse Falls was the team’s most technical rope rescue to date at the state park. Tri-Cities emergency crews are called ...

FIRST RESPONDERS. MY BONE WAS STICKING OUT OF THE SIDE OF OUT OF THE SIDE OF MY ANKLE, AND I KNEW I WASN’T GOING ANYWHERE. A NASTY INJURY HAS COLBY RISER STUCK ON ...

Rope access technicians do their jobs dangling from rope that cannot survive abrasion over sharp edges. Somebody who knows the ropes innovated a life-saving solution Another workday begins. The sky is ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) - There was a nerve-racking rescue in Harlem Tuesday as fire crews used a rare rope rescue to save a woman hanging out of the window of an apartment complex. As CBS2's Kiran ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – A “risky” rope rescue saved a hiker who was stranded at the top of Saddle Mountain in Clatsop County on Sunday. Emergency crews responded to the park around 2:45 p.m. after ...

FIREFIGHTERS and a rope rescue unit helped rescue a person who had fallen down a steep embankment in a Cheshire town.