Technical rescue is an elite element of the fire service. Members of technical rescue teams immerse themselves in hundreds of hours of training and practice to ensure that their skill sets are ...

The Washington Region 4 Technical Rescue Team saved a rock climber who fell off a rock wall and suffered a traumatic hip injury Thursday at Beacon Rock State Park, according to the Vancouver Fire ...

Consider this: It’s a cold, winter day on the local river. Duck season is underway. It has been extremely cold previously. The river appears to be frozen over. The day is gloomy, with a fair amount of ...

When it comes to technical rescue, I live and work in two worlds: standby rescue and emergency response. My full-time position allows me to oversee a division for a private third-party consulting firm ...

Area fire departments have to be prepared for a wide variety of rescues, ranging from ones on water to those in burning buildings but one that people might not think about is a trench rescue. The ...

Several members of the rescue squad designed the ambulance from the ground up. The design team considered what worked well and what didn’t in vehicles used in the past to create the plan. We’re told ...

The Virginia Tech Rescue Squad mission is going to new heights with a technical team that specializes in high and low angle rope rescues, according to a university news release. High and low angle ...

We might have frequent runs that are hazmat incidents because of a chemical component: carbon monoxide alarms, fuel spills, natural gas investigations. However, a complicated hazmat incident that ...

As some students played Ultimate Frisbee on the Drillfield during one of the first sunny days this semester, others practiced saving lives. The Virginia Tech Rescue Squad and the Blacksburg Fire ...