Bradford City Fire and Police departments staged a tricky rescue Monday evening when officers and firefighters were ...

To save a World War II-era mountainside staircase marked for removal by the City and County of Honolulu, the Friends of Haiku ...

It reads, “Just how New Bedford’s newest piece of fire fighting equipment, the rebuilt ladder truck, will stand up when the pressure is on, is being demonstrated before Mayor Harriman in the presence ...

He invented the first aerial ladder hoist, called the Dahill hoist, in 1902. Larry Roy, director of the New Bedford Fire Museum, said Dahill’s invention really made a difference when it came to ...

He invented the first aerial ladder hoist, called the Dahill hoist, in 1902. Larry Roy, director of the New Bedford Fire Museum, said Dahill’s invention really made a difference when it came to ...

Born in New Bedford in 1862, Edward F. Dahill joined the New Bedford Fire Department in 1888 when he was 26 years old. He served as chief of the department from 1904 to 1947. He left his job as ...

PITTSBURGH — Two window washers were stuck more than seven stories up on a skyscraper in downtown Pittsburgh Friday. The men were working at the BNY building when their scaffolding lost power ...

“If you asked a foreman for a ladder, they would say ‘go home.’” Over time, however, he got quite adept at scaling various structures and any acrophobia he might have had to begin with was gone. A few ...

The miners had just completed a 12-hour shift and had been stuck underground for 24 hours by the time rescuers arrived. “Miners are used to climbing 100 to 200 feet to another level, where they can ...

For the next 18 months, six Danish maritime pilots will be able to do their jobs without spending hours on a launch or climbing aboard a vessel using an often-questionable pilot ladder.

The NBA’s newest power is scary young, scary different and scary good The Oklahoma City Thunder became the NBA’s most dominant team this season by laying waste to conventional wisdom.