A Kansas City, Kan., man is hailing the escape plan he hoped he'd never have to use – until a weekend fire destroyed his family's home.Brian Arnold said he and his daughter were able to get out safely ...

PEMBROKE PINES (CBSMiami) - A helpful accomplice and a bit of athleticism helped a woman escape from the South Florida State Hospital in Pembroke Pines. Genevieve Mittermaier had been involuntarily ...

A cargo plane that caught fire after landing at a Florida airport on Friday was captured on video by onlookers at the terminal as it exploded in a fireball. Two pilots used a rope ladder to flee from ...

FOUR prisoners have made a dramatic escape attempt to scale the walls of a NSW jail with a rope ladder and a grappling hook hidden in a laundry bag. Officers at the Mid-North Coast Correctional Centre ...

As a new owner of an old building, there is only one means of egress for the tenants on the 2nd and 3rd floors. There is a fully functional sprinkler system, but I was considering providing each ...

An East Tennessee woman is on a mission to save lives. Emma Grindstaff lost her daughter and granddaughter, Dana and Sara Keeling, in a fire last November. They weren’t able to escape from their ...

Following a Hanoi apartment fire that killed 56 people last week, Major Nguyen Danh Luan from the city's firefighting police department provided answers to the most-asked questions regarding emergency ...

A Surrey property developer had the “incredulous and inherently dangerous” plan of installing a rope ladder, and then have people jump down onto a sloped roof, rather than put in a proper fire escape ...

Three people are confirmed dead after a cruise ship carrying more than 4,000 people ran aground off Italy. There were scenes of panic as the Costa Concordia hit a sandbar on Friday evening near the ...

His accomplices, a man and a woman, commandeered at gunpoint the Mi-2 helicopter and forced the pilot to fly to the jail, in the village of Sheksna, in Vologda region, 300 miles north of Moscow, and ...