This new interactive class combines an educational lecture with a hands-on experience. The classroom portion will discuss tower ladder operational tactics at various types of structures, forcible ...

Teamwork and training are essential to the fire service, proficiency in tactics are vital to successful safe fire ground operations. With the introduction of computer programs and simulators, the ...

On April 20, 2017, a 42-year-old male career fire fighter from Tower Ladder 135 died after being ejected from the platform of a tower ladder. At 1420 hours, the fire department dispatched Battalion 44 ...

It’s a cold, winter night. It’s right around midnight. The first-arriving companies transmit a working fire in a three-story wood-frame building. The second-­arriving ladder faces many obstacles: ...

New training videos, inspection technology, and distributor resources support safer climbing practices in March and ...

The Monument Fire District has received a new ladder tower designed to better aid firefighters in their life and property-saving efforts. A ladder tower, also known as an aerial tower or elevating ...

OROVILLE — Climbing off the ladder of Truck 74, Cal Fire-Butte County firefighters cut open a mock roof on a new, four-story training tower, to ventilate fake smoke in a demonstration Tuesday at the ...