It’s a cold, winter night. It’s right around midnight. The first-arriving companies transmit a working fire in a three-story wood-frame building. The second-­arriving ladder faces many obstacles: ...

What is a good way to tell whether a department and/or company is operating efficiently? The answer: ladder placement. What is ladder placement? It’s the positioning of a ladder where it can be used ...

Firefighter William Tolley may have plunged five stories to his death after his tower ladder impacted with a Queens building, causing the ladder to sway as he stepped onto the building’s roof, an FDNY ...