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About Us
Team Rescue Mode Inc. is
a non-profit corporation comprised of firefighters from the Richmond, Virginia area who compete in the Scott Firefighter
Combat Challenge. As firefighters we proudly serve the citizens of our communities and provide them with fire protection and
emergency medical services. Firefighting is an extremely physically and mentally demanding profession. As athletes we strive
to increase our physical and mental capabilities by pushing ourselves beyond our perceived limits. This allows us to be the
best possible athletes we can be, and in turn allows us to be even better firefighters. We train hard, and compete even harder.
Our goal is to be the best of the best.
The Competition
The Scott Firefighter Challenge
is an intense, spirited competition that seeks to encourage firefighter fitness and demonstrate the profession's rigors to
the public. The Challenge has won high accolades for its fidelity to the job and for providing the public with a greater appreciation
of the physical demands of firefighting. Unlike sports that exist solely for entertainment value, the Challenge is about performing
one of the most dangerous and demanding jobs safer and better.
Wearing "full bunker gear" and a Scott breathing apparatus (SCBA), pairs of firefighters simulate
the physical demands of real life firefighting by competing on a linked series of five tasks. Dominating the landscape is
a five-story hydraulic tower, the centerpiece of all the activity. Competitors climb to the top of the tower carrying a 42-pound
high-rise pack; then hoist a 42 lb. hose roll to the top; next they descend to the ground floor where they simulate chopping
by swinging a 9-pound shot mallet on the end of a 160 pound steel beam. They then zigzag 140 feet through simulation hydrants
to the fourth station, where they advance an attack hose a distance of 75 feet; and finally, competitors drag a life sized,
175 lb. "victim" a distance of 100 feet to the finish line.
This competition
is known as the “Toughest 2 minutes in Sports”. It is a test of desire, determination, pain, and mental toughness.
Firefighters have the option of competing either Individually, in a Relay, as a Tandem,
or as a Team. The firefighters compete at open events throughout the country from May to
October each year. During these open events, firefighters must achieve a certain time on the course in order to receive an
invitation to compete in the World Challenge in November of each year. This week long of events feature the “best of
the best” and is shown live on national television.
For more information on the competition please visit the web site for the Scott Firefighter Combat Challenge
at www.firefighterchallenge.com.
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