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 ...

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: ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Dracut Fire Department has deployed its new Tower 1 truck during intensive tactical training on Lakeview Avenue this week, ...

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 ...