
The Scott Firefighter Combat Challenge was held at Lake Tech Institute in Tavares on 13 April 2012. The Challenge seeks to encourage firefighter fitness and demonstrate the profession’s rigors to the public. Wearing “full bunker gear” and the SCOTT Air-Pak breathing apparatus, pairs of competitors raced head-to-head as they simulated the physical demands of real-life firefighting by performing a linked series of five tasks – including climbing the 5-story tower, hoisting, chopping, dragging hoses and rescuing a life-sized, 175 lb. “victim” as they raced against themselves, their opponent and the clock.