Technical rescue is an elite element of the fire service. Members of technical rescue teams immerse themselves in hundreds of hours of training and practice to ensure that their skill sets are ...

We might have frequent runs that are hazmat incidents because of a chemical component: carbon monoxide alarms, fuel spills, natural gas investigations. However, a complicated hazmat incident that ...

The Washington Region 4 Technical Rescue Team saved a rock climber who fell off a rock wall and suffered a traumatic hip injury Thursday at Beacon Rock State Park, according to the Vancouver Fire ...

When it comes to technical rescue, I live and work in two worlds: standby rescue and emergency response. My full-time position allows me to oversee a division for a private third-party consulting firm ...

Bob Atlas digs into the details of Contra Costa, CA, Fire Protection District's Technical Rescue Program's extrication of a man who was trapped in an 18-inch drainage pipe. Contra Costa County Fire ...

Area safety service personnel swarmed the city of Oberlin in a first of its kind training event. Fire departments from as far as Carlisle Township to North Ridgeville, and many in between, joined the ...

Area fire departments have to be prepared for a wide variety of rescues, ranging from ones on water to those in burning buildings but one that people might not think about is a trench rescue. The ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Grand Rapids Fire Department’s Technical Rescue team responded to two calls Friday. The first call was an SUV that slammed through part of Shawmut Hills Elementary. “Yesterday ...

Local firefighters, highway department workers and a regional technical rescue team Saturday assisted in getting a horse that ...

The Hancock County Technical Rescue team was dispatched to the 2200 block of W. Bedrock Lane for a confined space rescue of an unconscious male and two other workers in a manhole. Everyone is fine ...