Entries in Competition (3)

Thursday
Nov242011

European Firefighter Games

This is from the Czech Republic.  That pump primes faster than mine.  And those pants are tighter.

Some more competitions - excuse the music.

Tuesday
Nov222011

Drill Team Racing

Came across this video a few years ago and immediately bought the DVD.  Great video of this extreme sport that has firefighters jumping off trucks at 80 miles an hour holding a 120-pound ladder. http://www.trianglepark.net/

Wednesday
Nov162011

GRIMPday Competition

 

GRIMPday is an international, multidisciplinary technical rope rescue competition which takes place every October in Namur. The fourth edition was a face-off between 23 teams, from Belgium, France, Great Britain, Switzerland and Germany. The participants were firefighters, soldiers, police officers, rescuers, etc. All are members of GRIMP - Groupe de Reconnaissance et dIntervention en Milieu Périlleux (Reconnaissance and Intervention in Dangerous Environments Group). In teams of six and observed by evaluators, participants carried out a series of practical exercises on a timed and graded course: vertical evacuation of a victim, Tyrolean traverse, rappelling, underground progression, stretcher evacuation on a hill, etc.