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 ...

From live fire drills to victim rescues, Avon Fire Department's new facility—to be ready by spring 2020—will let firefighters hone their skills in a variety of practice scenarios. AVON, ...

I remember seeing firefighters in the bucket of the Tower ladder, or climbing the Tower ladder toward a burning building. I saw that several times when I watched nearby at the scene with my press ...

The town has added a new $1.56 million fire truck to its fleet, marking an upgrade from its aging ladder apparatus. Delivered on the morning of Oct. 24 by Greenwood Emergency Vehicles, the 2025 E-1 ...

CHICAGO (CBS) --A million dollars of taxpayer money was spent to build a training tower for firefighters — a project that began five years ago. When 2 Investigator Pam Zekman first reported on it two ...

The new Chattanooga Fire Training Tower at the Police & Fire Training Center, 3200 Amnicola Hwy., will hold a grand opening on Wednesday at 10 a.m. "Realistic training environments are vital for ...

Patton Fire Company life member Ken Letso (left) receives a tour of the new training tower by committee member Frank Hribar as state Rep. Dallas Kephart (right), R-Cambria, checks out the view from ...

WARNER ROBINS, Ga. — The Warner Robins Fire Department is hoping a new training center will help them keep people in the community safer. Fire Chief Ross Moulton says they have been building this fire ...

SUN PRAIRIE, WI – Training for firefighters in Henrietta, N.Y. just got a bit more challenging. This summer the fire district cut the ribbon on their new Fire Chief training tower from Fire Facilities ...

Syracuse N.Y.–– A new $3 million fire tower is scheduled to open for training this summer and will allow city firefighters to practice fighting fires on taller buildings, according to the Syracuse ...

A training tower for the Viroqua Fire Department will be built east of the fire station, which is located at 702 E. Broadway. The Viroqua City Council approved the VFD financing of the training tower ...