When fires break out in high-rise buildings, firefighters face the difficult task of battling blazes while evacuating people from high and hard-to-access places. "High-rise fires are very ...
The Temple Fire & Rescue Fire Truck 6 ladder reached for the side of the Hawn Plaza Apartment building, stretching to meet ...
LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- The firefighters who grabbed a man who was hanging to the side of a burning West Los Angeles high-rise say there was a desperate scramble to reach him before he fell or jumped.
ANN ARBOR, MI — Ann Arbor firefighters rescued two workers Monday from a lift bucket extended high into the air from a boom truck. Workers were using the truck at a construction site at 721 S. Forest ...
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Firefighters rescued dozens of people from a mixed commercial and residential high rise in Chile’s capital Thursday, plucking some from windows and balconies with ladder trucks ...