Pensacola Beach Firefighters Challenge

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Pensacola Sports, formerly Pensacola Sports Association, is pleased to announce a new event for the 2016 event calendar: Pensacola Beach Firefighters Challenge.  The one-day event will take place on Pensacola Beach on April 9, 2016.  There will be a team check-in party on April 8 at Bamboo Willies and a post-event pub crawl on April 9. 

Partnering with the Escambia County and City of Pensacola Fire Departments, the event will test firefighters’ skills as they’ll maneuver through a five station course, all while running in the sand.  Two teams/individuals will compete at one time.  The five stations on the course include: forced entry, charged hose pull, Kaiser Sled, dummy drag, and a hose ladder pull. 

Fire departments will form a team of five people, each person completing one of the stations.  Additionally, an individual firefighter can select to perform the course by themselves to compete in the Individual Category.  The individual competition will run from 8 a.m. - noon and the team competition will be from noon – 4 p.m. 

The event is free and open to the public to view the competition. 

In addition to the competition, multiple emergency vehicles (ladders, trucks, helicopter, boats, etc.) will be on display for the public to get up close and personal with.   
To register (fire departments) and for more information, visit www.pensacolasports.org/penbeachfirefighters or call the Pensacola Sports office at 434-2800.