Dedicated swiftwater training facilities enable firefighters and other responders to practice in controlled, realistic environments regardless of natural water conditions. Swiftwater facilities ...

DuBois City Council unanimously approved an interagency cooperation agreement last week formalizing the city’s participation in the Northwest Central Pennsylvania Task Force Swiftwater Rescue Team and ...

FOX Weather Correspondent Katie Byrne is at the NYS Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services facility where first responders train to handle water rescue situations. Katie talked to George ...

SPOKANE VALLEY, Wash. — "We understand that statistically speaking, swiftwater rescue is about the most dangerous thing we can do," Spokane Valley Fire Department Captain Ben Riddle told NonStop Local ...

HALIFAX COUNTY, Va. (WSET) — 12 members of the Lynchburg Fire Department's Swiftwater Rescue team responded to the widespread flooding in Halifax County Tuesday. During nearly 10 hours of deployment, ...

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (WAVY) — Texas is getting help from the Peninsula, as the Newport News Fire Department’s Swiftwater Rescue Team has been asked to help more than a week after deadly floods took over ...

A Swiftwater strike team, made up of three members from the City of Spokane Fire Department as well as three members from the Spokane Valley Fire Department (SVFD), has been deployed to King County in ...

Days after coming to the aid of dozens of stranded residents and motorists during Chattanooga’s historic flash flooding event, the Chattanooga Fire Department’s Swiftwater Rescue Team will be awarded ...

SKAGIT COUNTY, Wash. -- The Spokane Valley Fire Department Swiftwater Rescue team continued to help with the historic flooding in western Washington on Saturday. According to the fire department, the ...

Jul. 11—Members of the Manchester Fire Department are part of a swift water rescue team from New Hampshire that has been deployed to Vermont to assist emergency officials with life-threatening ...