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The Fire Department has announced that all firefighters will be equipped with personal safety ropes by the middle of next year. The news comes six weeks after a round of ropes were recalled over ...

A ballyhooed rope- and-harness safety device distributed to city firefighters just last week has already been suspended from use – after one of the lines used in the survival gear frayed during a ...

A ballyhooed rope- and-harness safety device distributed to city firefighters just last week has already been suspended from use – after one of the lines used in the survival gear frayed during a ...

Appropriately enough for the Easter season, this is a story about eggs. The story began as it ended on Friday, off the east side of Catalina Island with wildlife ecologist Peter Sharpe dangling from a ...