David Fisher, a professional rope jumper and performer, was honored by Westfield, Ind., on Monday after using a jump rope to ...

A professional had the perfect tool nearby to save a 19-year-old who’d fallen into a body of water and was in danger of ...

Dozens of skiers had to be rescued from a broken chairlift on Cannon Mountain in New Hampshire Wednesday morning.

"We might throw a throw bag around them and have them ... training is conducted for confined space rescue, trench rescue, rope rescue and structural collapse rescue. "We try to get a ...

Alternatively, the rescue belt can also connect a rescuer to the end of a throw rope and rescue a swimmer or gear (“live bait”). The belt has a quick release if things get snagged or the water ...

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.