BLOOMINGTON — For 36 years, from 1876 until its demolition in 1912, the tallest structure in Bloomington-Normal was the 200-foot-tall standpipe at the municipal water works. This water tower was ...

Inside is a 4-foot-diameter, 135-foot-tall iron standpipe that absorbed pulsations from reciprocating steam engines in a pumping station on the Lake Michigan shore.

Ladder 5 firefighters Joe Graffagnino and Robert Beddia ran out of oxygen while trapped inside that building. Eyewitness News reporter Lisa Colagrossi is live in Lower Manhattan with the latest.

The faulty standpipe in the former Deutsche Bank building that led to the death of two firefighters three weeks ago has finally been repaired, officials announced yesterday. The standpipe, which wa… ...

In 2007, two New York City firefighters died battling a blaze inside the Deutsche Bank skyscraper in lower Manhattan, a building that was being torn down after parts of the Twin Towers crashed ...

Part 2 will examine equipment in a standpipe accessory bag, choosing the size of hose line for standpipe operations and deployment of hose bundle folds. Viewers will learn how to determine the ...