Your department’s tech rescue program needs to train additional rope rescue technicians. Where do you start? An out-of-town open enrollment class? Maybe bring an outside instructor to your department?

Ruel Douvillier offers advice on how to build a training program around NFPA 1006. There is no mandatory standard for technical rescuers in the United States. We have NFPA 1006: Standard for Technical ...

All across the nation, on a daily basis, firefighters and rescue personnel are called upon to use their training to effectively disentangle a victim. While today’s fire service relies heavily on ...

Not being able to rescue a worker from a confined space has a devastating impact on the company and, more importantly, the employees. With a focus on decreasing or minimizing injuries and fatalities, ...

Dallas Fire-Rescue announced the development of the Lt. Todd Krodle Firefighter Rescue Drill, made possible by a donation ...

Scituate firefighters practiced ice rescue operations again Monday, diving into freezing waters to train for seasonal ...

Greenwood Fire Department improves rescue operations with Duke Energy grant and specialized rope rescue training.

Ben Green, special operations program coordinator with the Kansas Fire & Rescue Training Institute, shows off a hydraulic rescue tool called the "Jaws of Life." The Kansas Fire & Rescue Training ...

Ten people with the Directorate of Emergency Services (DES) Fire Department completed 40 hours of training in the Ropes Rescue I course for technical rescue. The firefighters completed training on ...

St. Johns County moved forward with plans to build a new fire rescue training facility near State Road 16 and Interstate 95.