The Fire Department has announced that all firefighters will be equipped with personal safety ropes by the middle of next year.
The news comes six weeks after a round of ropes were recalled over safety concerns a week after they were distributed.
Firefighters began training on the new kevlar ropes in early October at the FDNY training center on Randall's Island. But during one of those exercises, a firefighter's rope got caught in the pulley that controls the descent and began to fray, prompting the recall.
Now, the fire commissioner says the mechanism that allows firefighters to descend from burning buildings has been fixed so that the rope no longer catches.
Training with 2,000 new ropes will begin on December 15th and another 2,000 will be distributed on January 6th.
