The Rescue Ladder attachment can also be designed with removable rungs on both ends allowing it to connect any two conventional ladders together as shown below. This allows any conventional ladder to be come a rescue ladder capable of being extended to a victim and allowed to drop into the water.
Rescue Ladder Attachment with removable rungs on both ends being used to join two separate ladders together.
Ice Rescue Ladder
Rescue Ladder Attachment with removable rung and foot board.
Prospect Park, New York (Photo by Krish Dulal)
Currently wooden ladders are sometime located near common sites where people are known to congregate onto frozen ice. Although these ladders help in aiding they don’t go into the water.