After more than 30 hours researching, talking to firefighters, and testing three ladders, we’re sure the X-It 2-Story Emergency Escape Ladder is the best ladder to help you exit an upper floor ...

Even when people do make home-escape plans, though, they often fail to consider how much harder it is to escape your house if you’re trapped on the upper floors by an obstruction or fire.

The smoke was too heavy for them to get to the first floor, so they evacuated out the second-floor window using a fire-escape ladder. Every person in the house got out safely and didn’t need ...

About half an hour after crews showed up, they were using two ladder water towers and several ground lines, as the fire had spread to all floors of the building on the 2300 block of Lyndale Avenue ...

Family rescued after 2nd floor apartment fire in Mesa. Jul 20, 2023, 3:10 PM ... Firefighters placed a ladder to the window for the family to escape. RELATED STORIES.

The children, ages 6, 11 and 13, all were uninjured after they fled the fire by climbing out of a second-floor window, onto an awning and then jumping to the ground.

She first tried to get down the fire escape on the south side of the building, but it was engulfed in flames. As Mr. Gallant came up to the second floor on an inside stairway, fire was spreading ...

Jackson firefighters worked to put out flames at Somerset Place Apartments early Wednesday morning.According to Assistant Fire Chief Patrick Armon, they received the call just after 2:30 a.m., and ...