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 ...

Basic Aerials For basic aerial ladders, throw your stick up to the rooftop so the ladder overlaps the visible roofline by about 5 feet. Ideally, you’ll have a roof ladder (or a straight ladder ...

The member of the crew who is doing the cutting then repositions to make a parallel vertical cut that’s near the ladder beam. Lastly, the bottom cut is made, and the roof membrane can be louvered.

Boston Fire Commissioner Joseph Finn called the incident a "catastrophic failure" of the ladder truck, according to WCVB. A firefighter was in the bucket, which was about two feet above the roof ...

FIREFIGHTERS helped rescue a man from the roof of a three-storey building in York city centre in the early hours of today.

Firefighters used a hose reel jet and aerial ladder platform to extinguish the blaze A blaze that ripped through a pub's roof was an accident, firefighters said. Crews and police were called to ...