The Ann Arbor Fire Department performs an average of 85 elevator rescues every year, but a recent rescue was different. Firefighters rappelled 30 feet down an elevator shaft at C.S. Mott Children’s ...

Christian Brown and Jeffrey Mondo tell how basic trench rescue training of firefighters serves as a force multiplier for ...

Boston firefighters used ropes and harnesses to rescue a man trapped an elevator shaft, lifting him to safety on the 21st ...

Twenty firefighters from 16 departments across Massachusetts have graduated from the state’s 50-day Career Recruit Firefighting Training Program, according to a community announcement. The ...

According to the department, the man was trapped at the lower level of a so-called “blind” elevator shaft, another name for ...