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For more information, please visit our host here, South Walton County Sheriff’s Office. 

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
• Dummy Drag
• CPR Compressions

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. However, five-person teams are permitted. One member of the five-person team must complete the first and last skill of the obstacle course.

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.

Five second deductions will be deducted for each infraction from the team if structural firefighter gear is not in place properly (For Example: Forgetting to don hood).

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.

Courses

There will be two courses right next to each other – two teams will be going at the same time. Each team is racing for their best overall time, not against the team next to them.

Each 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.

Competition Timing

The event will be manually scored. Your time will start on “GO” from the announcer will stop once you cross the finish line.
There will be two timers for each team to verify the time.