After more than 30 hours researching, talking to firefighters, and testing three ladders, we think the X-It 2-Story Emergency Escape Ladder is the best.

ELKHART — A fire at a three-story building at Old Farm Apartments late Monday left some residents scrambling down ladders from their balconies. No injuries were reported but an unknown number of ...

CBS News Chicago Live. Residents jumped from the windows of a four-story apartment building in Milwaukee during a Mother's Day fire that killed four people, critically injured four others and grew ...

Video footage shows a man, identified as Ashiq Hussein, 53, falling from a fire rescue ladder as he was trying to escape from a burning apartment building in Brooklyn, N.Y.

Over the past half month, Tran Van's mechanical workshop in Nam Tu Liem District has seen a spike in orders for outdoor fire escape staircases. He and his team install about five sets weekly, mostly ...

He lowered himself on to the fire escape to rescue them. I took a position where I could photograph what I thought was an impending routine rescue. The ladder went up to pick them up - they were about ...

A fire broke out at the Arbors of Battle Creek, leaving two people trapped in their apartments. Firefighters used ground ladders to rescue them. No one was injured, though a dog was killed. The ...