Dozens of young men and women new to the work of rappelling out of a hovering helicopter to fight backcountry forest fires were trained in Salmon last week by personnel from Salmon Helirappellers and ...

Madison County Technical Team team member Todd Zorbrist, right, gestures as he talks about ways to hook up a Stokes basket among the ropes used for rappelling and lowering equipment at Riverview Park ...

Ten people with the Directorate of Emergency Services (DES) Fire Department completed 40 hours of training in the Ropes Rescue I course for technical rescue. The firefighters completed training on ...

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SALMON, Idaho (KIFI) - Some of the best firefighters in the country came to train with the Heli-Rappellers in the Salmon-Challis National Forest this May. Once they learn the ropes, they one day may ...

CAMP MERRILL, Ga. - A new four-story rappel and climb tower has given the Army an added boost in Ranger training's mountain phase. Just a few hundred yards outside the main camp on the outskirts of ...

Specialized teams from the Greeley fire and police departments combined their skills in a rappelling training exercise on Wednesday.Greeley fire’s technical rescue team and the police department’s ...

There's "Spider-Pig," and there is now "The Rappelling K9" too. Weld County K9 Kenzi recently learned some new skills with her deputy while attending Rocky Mountain Tactical Team Association annual ...