The current 2017 Edition of NFPA 1983 contains three main categories of life safety rope and equipment. These are Escape Use, Technical Use and General Use. General Use rope and carabiners ...

NFPA 1858, Standard on Selection, Care, and Maintenance of Life Safety Rope and Equipment for Emergency Services, is in preliminary draft form. The deadline for public input on the draft is Jan. 7 ...

This past August, New York's Governor Eliot Spitzer signed a law requiring employers to provide firefighters throughout New York, excluding the FDNY, with life safety ropes. The Black Sunday fire ...

Sterling Rope Co., a Biddeford manufacturer of life-safety rope, cord, and hardware, has agreed to be acquired by Sherrill Inc., a North Carolina company that claims to be the largest distributor ...

Sterling Rope Company, Inc., the life-safety manufacturer that built the first ever 100% Technora® fire escape rope for FDNY, now offers the FCX Rescue Device; a competitively-priced and advanced ...

On Monday night, the Narragansett Town Council unanimously approved the purchase of six new life safety cabinets and water rescue ropes. The vote came after two men were swept off the rocks on ...

Dick’s (NYSE:DKS) is based in Coraopolis. The recall involves Field & Stream Life Line, Linesman and Safety Ropes. The ropes can fail when used in freezing conditions. Dick’s initiated the ...