Search and Rescue

Common questions about when firefighters in bunker gear and SCBA can make a save and when to wait for the hazmat team

Fire officials had been to the Davenport apartment building a day before the collapse for a 911 call about a partial collapse

The simulations at the site in Lincoln tested the team's abilities in concrete breaching, breaking, shoring, lifting and rigging

Branden Colvin Sr.'s body was found a day after authorities in Davenport switched from search to recovery operations

Clinton Township firefighters quickly found the two unconscious victims as the trailer was heavily involved in fire

Five Montgomery firefighters were burned, two critically, while searching for people trapped in a house fire in May

Firefighters found the children in a back bedroom during a search

Davenport officials announced plans to demolish the unstable building even though two people may be trapped in the rubble

Davenport city officials had received several complaints about needed repairs and maintenance from occupants of the six-story building

This new course shares tactical considerations from research that can be employed to minimize occupant and firefighter exposures

The crew of Parma Medic 3 rescued a trapped occupant during a basement fire

Firefighters rigged ropes to raise the severely injured man 150-feet from where he was trapped

The large response of first responders to the Charlotte construction site fire led officials to tell the public to not use 911 except in a true emergency

Attorney General Merrick Garland said the recipients showed “extraordinary valor" above and beyond the call of duty

Divers performed a grid search to locate the man on the floor of the bay