Ultimately, the fire ladder truck that would be destroyed was an early key for saving the man stuck on the construction crane. “We still have a crane operator in the crane,” fire personnel ...

Firefighters battling Thursday’s massive fire in Charlotte’s South Park area abandoned a ladder truck moments before it became engulfed in flames and a building collapsed on it. As the next few hours ...

Three firefighters narrowly escaped injuries after the aerial ladder they were operating from was struck by a crane. Phoenix firefighters were using two aerial to battles a recycling yard fire ...

Story of Ladder 2: A construction crew worker trapped above a building fire on a crane was saved as Charlotte, NC fire burned in South Park.

Firefighters battling a blaze at a Phoenix metal-recycling plant on Thursday narrowly avoided what could have been a "catastrophic" accident after one of the plant's crane operators crashed into ...

Man survives 25-foot fall into concrete vault, rescued by crane. ... A construction worker survived a fall of an estimated 25 feet from a ladder Monday afternoon, a fire department spokesman said.