Sick of the sweaty, fluorescent-lit, loud-music gym scene?

Two picture-transmitting ladders are to give firefighters in Cumbria a head start when tackling blazes. Crews based in Carlisle and Barrow have just taken delivery of the aerial ladder platforms each ...

'Ladder 49': You Know the Drill. September 30, 2004. By Desson Thomson. THERE ARE real firefighters in the world who regularly perform heroic deeds.

A man has been taken to hospital after injuring himself on a drill when he fell from a ladder.