WATERLOO - Firefighters pushed ladders, poles and ropes across the snow to practice plucking people from a frozen pond Wednesday. The exercises were part of Waterloo Fire Rescue's annual ice ...

During the training drills, rescue teams and crews stationed on the shoreline worked with 250-foot rope reels, safety rope ...

A U.S. Coast Guard helicopter was called in to assist local fire departments and area dive teams, but luckily this was only a ...

During the drill, the water was between 32-50 degrees. “Athletes who get in an ice bath, that water temperature is between 50 and 60 degrees,” Essex said. Jason Gould ...

SOUTH SIOUX CITY, Neb. (KTIV) - Although it was bitterly cold on Sunday, the Dakota City Volunteer Fire Department took to the water in South Sioux City to simulate an ice water rescue.

PATERSON, New Jersey (WABC) -- With the cold weather not going away, emergency response teams in Paterson took part of extra drills in case of ice-related emergencies. Responders on Tuesday ...

While many Iowans huddle inside when it’s this cold, others set off for their ice fishing shacks, which is the reason dozens of firefighters from multiple departments in southwest Iowa took part ...

The Oakland County Sheriff’s Office says the two were drilling a hole to go ice fishing on Lake George when the ice gave way and the grandfather, 66 from Livonia, fell into the water.

Water rescues underline uncertainty of early season ... first responders who are dispatched to rescue them are also put at risk. ... by using an ice auger, chisel or cordless drill and a tape measure.

Advised in advance of the ice-rescue drills taking place, Stanzilis at first wondered if he was watching a training exercise. "I called the Police Department, and the sergeant at the desk said ...