The roof rope is more than just a rope for a riding position on an apparatus. For decades, it’s been known as one of the highest risk and lowest frequency operations for firefighters in the Northeast.

FDNY firefighters performed a daring rope rescue from the roof of a six-story Manhattan building to save a 5-year-old girl trapped in a two-alarm blaze early Tuesday. She was among 12 people saved by ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) -- A firefighter pulled a resident to safety in a daring roof rope rescue early Thursday morning from a massive apartment building fire on the Upper East Side that left one ...

BROWNSVILLE, Brooklyn — Firefighters rescued a man from the third floor of Zion the House of Faith Church on Sunday morning. Ubeaka McKinney was searching the burning building for his grandmother, ...

NEW YORK -- The FDNY put a rarely used maneuver into action to save a woman who was hanging from a 16th-floor window during a high-rise fire in Manhattan. The fire was reported Tuesday near Lenox ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- Firefighters made a daring rescue on Tuesday morning, saving more than a dozen people, including some who were seriously hurt. The FDNY members had to perform a special ...

“There were multiple people trapped above the fire here in dire, extreme conditions of heat and smoke. Members aggressively entered the building, pushed forward, went to the roof and working together, ...

HARLEM, Manhattan (WABC) -- The FDNY put a rarely used maneuver into action to save a woman who was hanging from a 16th-floor window during a high-rise fire in Manhattan. The fire was reported Tuesday ...