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.