More than a dozen members of the Lynchburg Fire Department's Swiftwater Rescue Team have been deployed to Halifax County.

SACRAMENTO -- Stepping into a virtual world to stay safe in the real one, Cal Fire is using augmented reality technology to train flight crews for life-or-death emergencies.

Starting this month, two dozen fire stations around Alameda County will hoist flags during dangerous fire weather conditions.

BOISE, Idaho - The Idaho Army National Guard’s State Aviation Group and the Boise Fire Department’s Swiftwater Dive Team practiced hoist rescues from the water during exercises April 18-19 at ...

In 1902, this New Bedford fire chief invented an aerial ladder hoist that would revolutionize the way ladders were raised on fire trucks ...

A lawsuit claims improper equipment led to the fatal fall of a Lewes firefighter during a training exercise in 2016.

Firefighters from Slidell and surrounding areas trained and competed on state-of-the-art equipment trucked in and set up by national Firefighter Combat Challenge, which stages events around the ...

Suspended 30-60 feet off the ground thanks to a malfunctioning hoist system is no time for students at the U.S. Army School of Aviation Medicine to be unsure if someone will be able to rescue them.

More than thirty miners were suffocated this morning in Halley-Ola Coal Mine No. 1, near Haileyville, fourteen miles east of McAlester, when fire destroyed the hoisting shaft and air shaft and cut ...

By Matthew Davisson Click here for updates on this story Texas (KTVT) -- The search and rescue teams from several North Texas fire ...