The Oregon Department of Emergency Management's SPIRE program is boosting emergency response efforts in Jacksonville.

The El Paso Fire Department has acquired new AMKUS Heavy Rescue tools to enhance their vehicle extrication capabilities and ...

Upland, CA, July 30, 2009 - Champion Rescue Tools, the leader in next-generation, hydraulic rescue tools able to quickly cut apart the safest, 5-star crash-rated vehicles, and Volvo Cars of North ...

Today’s vehicles are well equipped to try to keep drivers safe during a crash and include safety equipment like airbags and other technologies. Unfortunately, this can sometimes impede the progress of ...

Electric vehicle (EV) design has changed what rescuers encounter compared with automobiles that have internal combustion engines. Gone are the firewalls of the latter. They are replaced with bulkhead ...

Santa Barbara County Fire has received a $157,500 grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety (OTS) to purchase three complete sets of new battery ...

FORREST COUNTY, Miss. (WDAM) - When seconds matter, Forrest County volunteer firefighters are preparing for the calls that can mean the difference between life and death. Crews from the Macedonia and ...

EPHRATA, Wash. — Grant County Fire District 13 says they have been awarded a $25,000 grant that they will use to get extrication equipment. Fire District 13 says the Genesis 15C-SLI Combination Rescue ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - The Mobile Fire-Rescue training staff and on duty firefighters spent Thursday morning teaching extrication techniques to its newest class of recruits. “Today the big thing is ...

LAMAR COUNTY, Miss. (WDAM) - Thousands of car accidents happen across the country everyday. Fifteen firefighters took a vehicle extrication class Thursday and Saturday to prepare for many drivers’ ...

INDEPENDENCE, Iowa (KCRG) - The Independence Fire Department has received a $25,000 grant to purchase new station equipment.

Firefighters from three departments used hydraulic rescue tools to free two seriously injured people trapped in a vehicle ...