Ladders

The Firehouse.com Ladders product category is a collection of information, product listings and resources for researching various fire service and firefighter ladders, including portable, ground and extension ladders, roof ladders with hooks, NFPA ladder compliance options.
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Operations & Training

PA Firefighters Execute Dangerous Rescue

Jan. 3, 2023
Wilkes-Barre crews needed one ground ladder to reach the porch and a second to reach the third-floor windows to save 5 people.
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Rescue

DC Firefighters Rescue Seniors from 8-Story Building

Nov. 15, 2022
DC Fire and EMS members could be seen at the Foggy Bottom-based residence helping the residents out of the windows and down ladders.
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Operations & Training

PA Man Escapes Commercial Fire

Nov. 4, 2022
A man escaped a burning building Thursday evening in Pittsburgh's Uptown neighborhood, not far from PPG Paints Arena.
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Ladder rescues require coordination with outside teams, to ensure that a ladder is at the window by which you and the victim will exit if you didn’t enter the room through the window.
Ladder rescues require coordination with outside teams, to ensure that a ladder is at the window by which you and the victim will exit if you didn’t enter the room through the window.
Ladder rescues require coordination with outside teams, to ensure that a ladder is at the window by which you and the victim will exit if you didn’t enter the room through the window.
Ladder rescues require coordination with outside teams, to ensure that a ladder is at the window by which you and the victim will exit if you didn’t enter the room through the window.
Ladder rescues require coordination with outside teams, to ensure that a ladder is at the window by which you and the victim will exit if you didn’t enter the room through the window.
Operations & Training

Truck Tactics: Search With a Purpose

Sept. 12, 2022
Sean Eagen recounts the Buffalo, NY, Fire Department's efforts to remove four victims from a residential fire to explain the keys to a truck company's approach to search.
Aerial ladders typically were painted gray, which provided some contrast against the sky and which was claimed to be reasonably easy to maintain and keep clean. The Chelsea Hook and Ladder Company of Nyack, NY, once operated with this 1955 American LaFrance 100-foot tractor-drawn aerial ladder.
Aerial ladders typically were painted gray, which provided some contrast against the sky and which was claimed to be reasonably easy to maintain and keep clean. The Chelsea Hook and Ladder Company of Nyack, NY, once operated with this 1955 American LaFrance 100-foot tractor-drawn aerial ladder.
Aerial ladders typically were painted gray, which provided some contrast against the sky and which was claimed to be reasonably easy to maintain and keep clean. The Chelsea Hook and Ladder Company of Nyack, NY, once operated with this 1955 American LaFrance 100-foot tractor-drawn aerial ladder.
Aerial ladders typically were painted gray, which provided some contrast against the sky and which was claimed to be reasonably easy to maintain and keep clean. The Chelsea Hook and Ladder Company of Nyack, NY, once operated with this 1955 American LaFrance 100-foot tractor-drawn aerial ladder.
Aerial ladders typically were painted gray, which provided some contrast against the sky and which was claimed to be reasonably easy to maintain and keep clean. The Chelsea Hook and Ladder Company of Nyack, NY, once operated with this 1955 American LaFrance 100-foot tractor-drawn aerial ladder.
Graphics

Performance vs. Appearance: How Was Your New Rig Designed?

Sept. 5, 2022
Tom Shand and Michael Wilbur urge apparatus committees to think twice about specifying atypical paint colors and graphics.