When aerial platform operations are mentioned in law enforcement circles, they usually inspire opinions in support or opposition. Some refer to it as APS (aerial platform shooting) and this conjures ...

A late-night traffic stop escalated into an alleged vehicle pursuit and wooded foot chase that ended with two men taken into ...

Kristin Jenny is a freelance journalist based near Boulder, Colorado. She typically covers endurance sports—and is a triathlete herself—and enjoys covering stories about everything from unsung local ...

Diving toward a burning hillside in his first season flying an air tanker for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, Jeff Reynolds realized he was doing just about everything his ...

There are some perspectives you can only get from the air. Though drones have made aerial photography more accessible than ever to amateurs and hobbyists, sometimes the only tool for the job is a ...

There are any number of questions that must be addressed by a department’s apparatus committee when beginning the process of developing requirements for a new aerial device. This can be daunting, ...

Who is coming to the fire? For most of us not in an urban setting, we are not fortunate enough to have a full complement of firefighters on any of our apparatus, especially our aerial trucks. On the ...

Deciding if your fire department needs some type of aerial device requires a great deal of thought, especially if this might be your first vehicle in this category. Your truck committee needs to sit ...

With the Olympics, Disney theme park expansions and the OCVIBE entertainment district on the horizon in Anaheim, the city is looking at new transit technologies to move people around. One proposal ...

It looks almost like a celestial map from another century, swirls and loops gracing a page of parchment. But in reality, those lines and whirls are tracks from all-terrain vehicles marking the ...

In northern Jordan, along a wadi once called the Golden River, the ancient city of Jerash sits uneasily alongside its modern namesake. With its columned temples, Roman forum, and other monuments, it's ...