A knee or ankle could sustain real damage by coming to an abrupt stop at the end The liability risk of fire poles is typically a workers compensation issue The fire station slide trend is solidly ...

The alarm sounds. Firefighters jump from their bunks, pull up their boot straps, and sprint toward the station's fire slide? These days, not every fire station comes with the iconic brass pole. Many ...

The brass fire pole, that abiding image of firehouse tradition, may be going the way of the Dalmatian. No one knows how many of the poles in the nation’s 49,200 stations stand idle or have been ...