Articles and content related to emergencies involving the Technical Rescue team of the London Fire Department.
Riverbank rescue
Firefighters were called to assist in retrieving a man found at the bottom of 40-foot embankment...
Partners in Response
Partners in Response. (l-r) Capt. M. Black, B. Aziz, B. Shea, Sherri with Katie, K. Foster, A. Braatz and Capt. D. Baker. Partners in Response at Westmount ...
Grate expectations
Platoon Chief Roy Smith, right, and firefighter John Hunt wait as police search a storm sewer at the south end of Maitland Street at the Thames River. Three youths ...
Going down?
London firefighters are in the second week of a four-week practice session of rappelling from the roof-tops of tall buildings in the city. Each team has six members ...
Don’t look down
London firefighter Ross Smith slides across a rope strung between the City Centre towers in downtown London as part of a training exercise Tuesday for high level rope ...
All in a Days Work
Two London firefighters of the Squad A high-level rescue team use a sked stretcher to train on the 76-metre (250-foot) high wall of the Radisson Hotel Thursday afternoon. ...
Cool-as-cucumber cleaners freed from a rather hot spot
Window washer Stan Walker, 37, on the left, looks down 34 metres 110 feet) to the Richmond Street sidewalk while Jeff Kumornik, 21, manually cranks an electrical motor, trying ...
Firemen battle sewage to rescue trapped engineer
By Mary Kehoe of the Free Press A London engineering department employee and two firefighters feel lucky to be alive after a grueling ordeal in a sewage-filled storm sewer on ...