A group of first responders used a rope pulley system to hoist five stranded tourists more than 200 feet out of the Grand Canyon Caverns in Arizona after the elevator broke down on Sunday, according ...

Remember when you were a kid and exercise was just called “playing”? Well, the North Carolina company Crossrope wants to bring that fun-time feeling back to getting sweaty. With a set of weighted ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fire and rescue personnel used a system of ropes to rescue a woman from the bank of the Piscataquog River after she had reportedly ...

Rescue personnel used a ropes system to bring up a stranded hiker at Signal Mountain on Tuesday afternoon. The Signal Mountain Fire Department responded to 108 Signal Point Trail regarding a female ...

Ten people with the Directorate of Emergency Services (DES) Fire Department completed 40 hours of training in the Ropes Rescue I course for technical rescue. The firefighters completed training on ...

In the last two articles, we focused on the foundation of mechanical advantage systems (MAS). We also touched on both anchor and belay systems. By now you should have a good base of knowledge ...