Besides hoses bearing water, few tools have proved as durable and as useful to New York City firefighters as rope. In longstanding rescue practices and on-the-spot improvisations, firefighters have ...

October 31, 2005 -- After recalling hundreds of safety ropes because one of them frayed during a training exercise last month, the FDNY said yesterday it has fixed the problem and expects to have ...

(RTTNews) - DICK'S Sporting Goods Inc. is recalling about 63,000 units of safety ropes citing fall and injury risks, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said in a statement. The recall ...

Considering the frigid weather climbers can encounter, safety ropes should be all-weather equipment. That’s why DICK’S Sporting Goods recalled about 63,000 Field & Stream safety ropes. The exact ...

They are mislabeled as being certified to specific voluntary NFPA safety standards, but they "cannot be relied upon for any purpose, posing fall and injury hazards to users," according to the U.S.

One of the helicopter's blades hit the rescue team's safety rope. — -- A recently released video captures a dangerous recovery operation in Utah's Lone Peak Wilderness that nearly turned deadly ...

Rope access technicians do their jobs dangling from rope that cannot survive abrasion over sharp edges. Somebody who knows the ropes innovated a life-saving solution Another workday begins. The sky is ...

A construction worker in eastern China survived falling from a seven-storey-high crane when a single safety rope left him suspended in mid-air 20 metres off the ground, mainland media reported. The ...