This class gives technical rescue personnel hands-on experience operating on a communications tower structure. Students will learn proper techniques for climbing tower structures, RF monitoring, ...

The 2006 International Technical Rescue Symposium (ITRS) was held in Golden, Colo., Nov. 2-5, again bringing together a wide variety of experts in the rescue field, many of whom were returning ...

The operator of a 100,000-pound drilling rig was seriously injured after the machine tipped over outside Southwest Portland’s Oregon Health & Science University on Friday morning, pinning the worker ...

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It’s going to take some time to train the firefighters at Minntac on their new rig. After all, it’s the first of its kind for a mine, and there aren’t that many in Minnesota. It’s a Rosenbauer Panther ...

Ohio Task Force 1 (OH-TF1) is hosting a training class for Heavy Equipment Rigging specialists and instructors in Ohio to train first responders in the use of rigging techniques, according to the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – The Indianapolis Fire ...

Dawn Wilson of Alpine Rescue Team fame laughed with fellow search and rescue volunteers Friday afternoon while setting up a rigging system to practice rappelling down the side of sheer cliff walls in ...

PORT ARTHUR, Texas (WABC) -- The U.S Coast Guard had to think quickly in order to rescue oil rig workers from a burning platform. The oil rig in Port Arthur, Texas was engulfed in flames leaving nine ...

Over the past three days, more than a dozen members of the Storm Ambulance & Rescue Corps, joined by firefighters from ...