American LaFrance has announced the new Vantage Fleet Management Program for fire departments and

American LaFrance has announced the new Vantage Fleet Management Program for fire departments and municipalities. The Vantage program features five- to eight-year lease-purchase packages with pre-established buy-back options. In addition, the program ties in a bumper-to-bumper warranty package, thus enabling departments to have more predictable annual apparatus expenditures. American LaFrance is a wholly owned subsidiary of Freightliner Corporation.

Hand entrapped in rope gripper

Elevator Rescue: Rope Gripper Entrapment

Mike Dragonetti discusses operating safely while around a Rope Gripper and two methods of mitigating an entrapment situation.
Delta explosion

Two Workers Killed, Another Injured in Explosion at Atlanta Delta Air Lines Facility

Two workers were killed and another seriously injured in an explosion Tuesday at a Delta Air Lines maintenance facility near the Atlanta airport.