Rose Fire Company recently added some new rope rescue equipment to Tower 58. Crews are starting to become familiar with the tools this week. Pictured is a double pulley system with attaches to the rungs of the ladder.
This device allows for 360 degree turntable rotation while maintaining alignment of ropes with the ladder. Elevation of the stokes basket is inputted by gentile extension and retraction of the aerial device. Rotation, extension, and retraction of the aerial device during the endorsed method of stokes basket evolution may still produce dynamic loads on the rope system components. This method effectively uses the aerial device as a crane. Multiple simultaneous control inputs are required to raise and lower the vertical position of the loaded basket.