Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The hot air balloon basket was tangled up over 900 feet in the air. (Longview Fire Department via AP) Firefighters in Longview, ...

Hanover firefighters and neighboring departments participated in a tower rescue operations certification class. The training covered high-risk, low-frequency rescue scenarios involving heights beyond ...

GREGG COUNTY, Texas (KLTV) - Two Longview firefighters are opening up about what it was like climbing more than 900 feet in the air to rescue two people whose hot air balloon hit a radio tower.

Two people were left dangling from a communications tower near Longview, Texas, on Saturday until more than a dozen firefighters could scale the equivalent of a skyscraper to reach them. By Adeel ...

LONGVIEW, Texas -- Crews in East Texas rescued two people stranded hundreds of feet in the air after a hot-air balloon became entangled on a communications tower over the weekend. Firefighters ...

A mutual aid effort led to the successful rescue of a worker who was trapped near the top of a 150-foot cell phone tower in Burleson Friday. Burleson firefighters were called out after workers came in ...

Firefighters in Longview, Texas, helped rescue two people this weekend after a hot air balloon got tangled in a cell phone tower in East Texas. The hot air balloon basket was tangled up over 900 feet ...