A group of first responders used a rope pulley system to hoist five stranded tourists more than 200 feet out of the Grand Canyon Caverns in Arizona after the elevator broke down on Sunday, according ...

Remember when you were a kid and exercise was just called “playing”? Well, the North Carolina company Crossrope wants to bring that fun-time feeling back to getting sweaty. With a set of weighted ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fire and rescue personnel used a system of ropes to rescue a woman from the bank of the Piscataquog River after she had reportedly ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- Life-saving techniques and equipment are making a difference for the men and women who put their lives on the line to battle fires. A firefighter in Queens made a split-second ...

Nine months after two of New York’s Bravest jumped to their deaths from a Bronx blaze, city fire officials yesterday unveiled a lightweight rope system to help firefighters escape the direst ...

Long passed are the days of manila rope and wooden block and tackles. Now, we puff out our chest with high-efficiency, ball bearing pulleys and auto-locking carabiners. Much like cellphones, it seems ...

Rescue personnel used a ropes system to bring up a stranded hiker at Signal Mountain on Tuesday afternoon. The Signal Mountain Fire Department responded to 108 Signal Point Trail regarding a female ...

Kern County firefighters used a rope rescue system and a stokes basket to carry a person whose vehicle plunged 60 to 100 feet down a ravine to safety near Wofford Heights on Friday. It happened at ...

I love the idea of jumping rope. You can quickly get your heart rate up without fancy equipment and it’s an activity you can do in your bedroom, backyard or a hotel room without needing very much ...