“We did a basic rope class, which is just basic knots that ... the patient to the firefighter via carabiners, which makes the rescue possible. Shane Husband, a lieutenant with the Terre Haute ...

If they can't grab the person, they'll then try to throw a rope. "We might throw a ... the men and women we could through the basic fundamentals of ice rescue training." Capt.

Every member of the Chico Fire Department possesses basic rope rescue skills, but the drill was specifically aimed at the 12 members of the department's technical rescue team. Stelle said regular ...

A rope rescue was used after the angler fell down an embankment by the Highway 371 bridge on the Mississippi River.

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 FDNY conducts roughly one rope rescue a year, sometimes none at all. On that frosty day in February, Kotzo and his team conducted three within a matter of minutes, FDNY officials said.

Of the 14 statewide teams, only five have rope rescue specialists. Every two years, Maine’s rope rescue teams train together at Acadia National Park to coordinate training techniques and inter ...

On Thursday, crews from the Seattle Fire Department answered calls for a rope rescue in a high-rise building near the intersection of Fourth Avenue and Union Street in Seattle. According to SFD ...

Bellingham Mountain Rescue Council (BMRC) crews successfully executed a steep-angle rope rescue and trail carryout to help get the hiker to safety, according to the Whatcom County Sheriff's Office ...