But what happens when you're dealing with a suspension bridge hundreds of feet above water or a narrow radio tower in ... is no joke in rope access work. Did you know it's one of the safest vertical ...

on Monday after using a jump rope to rescue a teenager who had fallen through an icy pond. By Tim Balk It was a sunny mid-December day in Westfield, Ind., and the iced-over pond across the street ...

The department announced eight firefighters completed a 10-class rope technician certification. This training teaches students how to rig a rope-rescue system properly, and safely move an injured ...

The man who fell 100-feet into a natural crevice, was aided by fellow tree workers and Bloomington firefighters, until he was ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — The sole occupant of a car that slid over and down the side of Highway 101 was pulled to safety in a dramatic rope rescue near Hug Point, the Cannon Beach Fire & Rescue said.

For Fisher, who took up rope jumping as a training exercise while playing volleyball in college, the rescue was the culmination of a lifetime of dreaming about different ways to use ropes.

In the mid-1980s, Fisher started seriously jumping rope to leap higher, an effort to improve as an amateur volleyball player at Emory University in Atlanta. Fisher was so enamored of his rope ...

It looked like the tower was in ... of the technical rescue, we had climbers go up and tend to the workers with medical care and start the process of getting some rope systems set up,” said ...

Specialist marine rescue teams are trying to find a whale ... that it is not the same whale which became entangled in a rope at a fish farm off the Isle of Skye last week. The humpback was spotted ...

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