Firefighters operating at a working fire need to know that there is a secondary means of egress available to them before an emergency arises. Portable ladders are a quick and easy way to provide this ...

When conditions inside a fire building change rapidly, the conventional methods to exit a window can be hampered by heat, window size and the firefighters profile. Your crew is performing a primary ...

This free guide to ladder safety regulations summarizes the relevant standards from various parts of OSHA’s general industry worker safety standard. It covers the design of the ladder itself, access ...

When it comes to using ladders on the fireground, there seems to be a lot of information in fire service textbooks that doesn’t really correspond to how we actually use ladders. On our truck company, ...

It seems that a certain phenomenon has occurred to the fire service, one that has not benefited the safety and efficiency of our personnel on the fireground. There is a noticeable lack of ladders ...

The fire service has a tendency to consider truck work as belonging solely to those members and departments that have aerial devices. The reality, of course, is that truck work belongs to every ...

Is a roof ladder and hatch considered a method of egress in a building? I am looking at a 4 unit building where the top floor renovation incorporated the roof ladder & hatch into the apartment. There ...