some Vandergrift No. 1 volunteer firefighters would answer rescue calls in one-piece cotton jumpsuits ripped from decades of crawling into mangled vehicles and performing hillside rope rescues.

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David Fisher, a professional rope jumper and performer, was honored by Westfield, Ind., on Monday after using a jump rope to ...

The department announced eight firefighters completed a 10-class rope technician certification. This training teaches students how to rig a rope-rescue system properly, and safely move an injured ...

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For Fisher, who took up rope jumping as a training exercise while playing volleyball in college, the rescue was the culmination of a lifetime of dreaming about different ways to use ropes.

In order to extricate the patient from the steep terrain, crews had to utilize a rope system, the department said. That haul system was anchored to the department's heavy rescue squad, while a ...

Photo from Joachim Pressl, UnSplash Two local fishermen recently rescued a humpback whale that had become entangled in rope off the United Kingdom. The pair were creel fishing on Feb. 9 near the ...

The man who fell 100-feet into a natural crevice, was aided by fellow tree workers and Bloomington firefighters, until he was ...

A single rope had become anchored around the tail of the humpback. The fishermen, who had Scottish Entanglement Alliance (SEA) training, were able to haul the creels to disentangle the whale ...