Besides hoses bearing water, few tools have proved as durable and as useful to New York City firefighters as rope. In longstanding rescue practices and on-the-spot improvisations, firefighters have ...

October 31, 2005 -- After recalling hundreds of safety ropes because one of them frayed during a training exercise last month, the FDNY said yesterday it has fixed the problem and expects to have ...

One of the helicopter's blades hit the rescue team's safety rope. — -- A recently released video captures a dangerous recovery operation in Utah's Lone Peak Wilderness that nearly turned deadly ...

Saying new testing on wire and hoisting ropes showed they “no longer met MSHA’s in-service standards,” despite previously passing tests and inspections, the Mine Safety and Health Administration has ...

Rope access technicians do their jobs dangling from rope that cannot survive abrasion over sharp edges. Somebody who knows the ropes innovated a life-saving solution Another workday begins. The sky is ...