HEROES FOR HEROES
FIREFIGHTER CHALLENGE

Obstacles

The course for the Heroes for Heroes Firefighter Challenge will be in Freeport, Florida. All obstacles will be on asphalt. The obstacles each participant must go through will be:

• Donning PPE and SCBA
• Forced Entry
• Charged Hose Pull
• Kaiser Sled
• Confined Space Obstacle
• Dummy Drag

Dress Requirements

Each participant will be required to wear full structural firefighting gear including boots, gloves, air packs (breathing on air), helmets, and masks.

Team Competition Information

Each team should consist of six team members, and each team must register at one time.

The first person will complete the first obstacle, then tag the second person (standing in the staging zone), and so on until the final team member crosses the finish line. Each person will stand on a small, elevated platform and be required to remain on the platform until tagged by their team member.

Teams will have a seeding round on Friday to determine when they go on Saturday for their actual competition time. The order on Saturday will be: fastest time on Friday goes last on Saturday, slowest time on Friday goes first on Saturday. Each team is guaranteed at least two runs on the course (one run on November 7th and one run on November 8th).

Infraction deductions include:

• Five second deduction for any SCBA or PPE infraction (Ex. No Nomex hood or unbuckled SCBA waist strap)
• Five second deduction for leaving the obstacle before completing it
• Ten second deduction for stepping off the elevated platform prior to being tagged by team member
• Ten second deduction for not buckling SCBA after completing the confined space obstacle

Rules

Donning PPE and SCBA

The contestant must wear full structural firefighting gear, including pants, coat, boots, hood, gloves, and helmet. All zippers and fastenings on the pants and jacket must be fully zipped and secured. The SCBA must be completely donned, and the contestant cannot proceed until they are breathing air and all PPE is properly worn.

Forced Entry

The contestant must be in full structural firefighting gear and breathing air before attempting the obstacle.

They cannot step off the elevated platform until tagged by their team member from the PPE and SCBA donning station.

The door must be forced using a Halligan or axe. (A baseball swing is not allowed)

Charged Hose Pull

The contestant must be in full structural firefighting gear and breathing air before attempting the obstacle.

They cannot step off the elevated platform until tagged by their team member from the forcible entry station.

At least one foot must be across the 100-foot marker before opening the bale.

The knockdown prop must fall before the contestant can proceed.

Keiser Sled

The contestant must be in full structural firefighting gear and breathing air before attempting the obstacle.

They cannot step off the elevated platform until tagged by their team member from the hose pull station.

The contestant must strike the Keiser sled until it reaches the end of the prop.

Confined Space Obstacle

The contestant must be in full structural firefighting gear and breathing air before attempting the obstacle.

They cannot step off the elevated platform until tagged by their team member from the Keiser sled station.

The contestant must enter the prop head-first and proceed through it.

If the SCBA pack is removed, it must be fully donned and buckled after exiting the prop.

The contestant cannot leave the designated area until the SCBA is properly donned.

Dummy Drag

The contestant must be in full structural firefighting gear and breathing air before attempting the obstacle.

They cannot step off the elevated platform until tagged by their team member from the confined space obstacle.

The contestant must lift the dummy and drag it backward until it completely crosses the finish line.

Courses

There will be one course unless the number of teams exceeds the time constraints on the day.

Each team is racing for their best overall time.

Each team or person gets one run of the course to score their best time. In the event there is a tie for an overall or award placement, the two teams will run the course again to determine a winner.

If a team or contestant files a complaint against another team or contestant, and the complaint is upheld, the team or contestant in question will have the option to rerun the course.

Competition Timing

The event will be manually and electronically timed. The clock will start when the first team member crosses the start line and will stop when the dummy in the dummy drag fully crosses the finish line.
There will be two additional timers for each team/person to verify the time on the race clock.