"We have purchased dry eye suits and equipment specifically for ice rescue. You can use other gear, like dry suits, but really, you need to be in ice suits to perform these rescues," Mousavi said ...

The North Area Technical Rescue Team is a 30-year-old, 150-member group that performs specialized rescues in Denver’s ...

MARQUETTE, Mich. (WLUC) - The newest addition to the Marquette City Fire Department’s protection equipment are drysuits. The department received six water rescue drysuits which can be used in ...

Fire department divers from Evanston and other towns rescued a ‘victim’ from a sunken 1880s Lake Michigan ship in a training ...

Water rescue being one of them,” says Lieutenant Mike Norman. ... If there is a rescue mission, the technical rescue teams are well equipped with life vests, banana boats, and dry suits.

“It's called a SWIFT water rescue bag, in which they have a personal floatation device inside that is for them only. They also have a wet and dry suit as well as several other components to help ...

Dry suits and water rescue vehicles were also brought over, and there are pumps to help people with any rising water in basements. "So inside of our water rescue trailer is a deflated boat, ...

First they put on dry suits, so they would float and stay warm if they ended up in the water. Then they used a long metal “spud bar” to test the thickness of the ice, which varied from about ...