The Scott Air Fire-fit challenge requires a grueling combination of cardiovascular endurance and physical strength. The course has competitors work through a series of tasks setup to simulate real life situations encountered by firefighters on the job.
The individual run requires a participant to complete the course wearing approximately 45lbs of equipment consisting of full fire fighter bunker gear while breathing on a Scott Airpak.
Tasks include a stair tower run up 4 stories carrying a 45lb section of hose line, followed by a raise of another 45lb roll of hose on a rope. Competitors then move back down the tower onto the Kaiser block designed to simulate a forced entry with a mall, this is followed by a obstacle course run to a charged hose line which is dragged 75 feet to a target which must be knocked down with the hose stream. The final portion of the event has the competitors drag a 175lb "Rescue Randy" training dummy 100 feet to the finish line.
The Atlantic Fire-fit Regionals where hosted this year by CFB Halifax and were held on the Halifax waterfront the weekend of July 31st-Aug.1st. The event saw 8 individuals travelling from the Big Land to race in individual competition and team relays. Jamie Mullaly, a firefighter from Happy Valley-Goose Bay participated in the individual run, while seven members of Voisey’s Bays Mine Rescue team travelled to Halifax to compete in the individual and team relay events. All Labrador competitors completed the course with run times of less than 3 minutes, an excellent showing for first time competitors.
Mullally Qualifies For Fire-fit Nationals
Jamie Mullaly a Firefighter/Paramedic with Serco's Emergency Environmental services (EES) at 5-Wing Goose Bay participated in the individual competition and completed the course with a respectable first time run of 2:56:32. With that time Mullaly has qualified for the Fire-fit National competition to be held this September in Brampton, Ontario. The Brampton event is a qualifier for the Fire-fit world competition being held in Florida later this year.
Voisey’s Bay Emergency Response team takes Gold and Silver in Industrial team relay
Seven volunteer members of the Voisey’s Bay mine rescue team also travelled to Halifax to participant in the Industrial team relay and completed individual run times as well. Eldred Allen of Rigolet was the fastest among his peers with a first year run time of 2:06:86. Wally England had the next fastest time among the Voisey’s participants with a final time of 2:12:78. Patrick Merner followed England with a run time of 2:20:07. Sam Ford from Nain had an excellent first time showing with a run of 2:27:09, that time was good for a 10th place overall finish in the over 40 category. Ford was closely followed by Dennis Saunders of Happy Valley-Goose Bay with a run time of 2:27:83, finishing out the results for the Voisey’s team was Paul Murphy of Nain with an individual run of 2:32:89 and Shawn Rideout with a final of 3:19:59.
Voisey’s Bay Team "A" consisting of Allen, England and Saunders had a combined team time of 6:47:47, and Voisey’s bay team B consisting of Merner, Ford, Murphy and Rideout had a team time of 7:20:05. Teams consist of 3-5 individuals with top 3 individual times representing that teams combined final time.
The participants from Voisey’s Bay were uncontested in the Industrial team relay division taking gold and silver in that category. This placing allows them to move on and compete against other Industrial Emergency Response teams from across Canada at the Fire fit Nationals in Brampton next month.
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