John Badman|The Telegraph Alton firefighters carry a "high-rise pack" of hose up a stairwell Wednesday during refresher training. ALTON — Alton firefighters on Wednesday trained on fighting a fire in ...

Springfield area firefighters teamed up at Missouri State University this month to practice complex high-rise rescue drills.

High-rise buildings have become targets for terrorist activities as seen at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995, where a truck bomb destroyed the high-rise ...

As the number of challenges associated with high-rise buildings continue to increase, so too does the responsibility of the fire department to know as much as possible about these buildings’ design, ...