When a fire breaks out in a high-rise building, conventional wisdom is that stairwells are the only way out. Lifts are verboten in such scenarios, while sheer height typically prevents any other ...

MAINTENANCE and inspection of the sloping, 600-foot face of Hoover Dam is not a task that can be accomplished in a great many ways. In fact, engineers from the Bureau of Reclamation perform this task ...

The high line system has several uses in rope rescues. It can be used for both high- and low-angle applications. It can be used to extricate victims from or move resources into high-rise structures ...

This was sure one hell of a mess, like nothing I'd planned. How did anybody talk me into it? I was working my way down a rope through a series of crevices into an underground limestone cavern -- that ...

The roof rope is more than just a rope for a riding position on an apparatus. For decades, it’s been known as one of the highest risk and lowest frequency operations for firefighters in the Northeast.

U.S. Special Forces often deploy on dangerous missions by sliding down a rope from a hovering helicopter, but run the risk of either burning their gloved hands from the friction or hurting themselves ...

Consider this scenario: You get a call for a woman who is stuck on a steep hillside. Her dog wandered too close to the edge and is now unable to get back up the hillside. The woman attempted to ...

Earlier this year, a vehicle accident along Southern California’s Highway 101 left a car dangling over a 100′ drop near Santa Barbara. Seeing this incident made me question both my physical ...