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When it comes to using ladders on the fireground, there seems to be a lot of information in fire service textbooks that doesn’t really correspond to how we actually use ladders. On our truck company, ...

When conditions inside a fire building change rapidly, the conventional methods to exit a window can be hampered by heat, window size and the firefighters profile. Your crew is performing a primary ...

A hilarious video has emerged of a young boy displaying his amazing acrobatic skills on a builder's ladder. The toddler successfully moved from the top to the bottom of the ladder without his feet ...

A three-year-old boy had a lucky escape after he slid down a 12-foot tall ladder when trying to get down from the terrace of a building. The little boy can be seen falling down the bamboo ladder from ...

Consider this scenario: You’re dispatched to an explosion. Upon arrival, you find a two-story commercial building that’s been reduced to a pile of rubble. There’s three feet of snow on the ground and ...

Icy conditions caused Worcester Fire Department’s Ladder Two to slide sideways down a hilly side street in the city on while operating at an incident. Icy conditions caused Worcester (Mass.) Fire ...