2014 World Champions

Montgomery Fire/Rescue set the world record with an amazing time of 1:07:22 and captured the world championship in the 2014 Firefighter Combat World Challenge XXIII in Phoenix, Arizona. The Blue Team returned home as the 2014 World Champions. It is the first World title for Montgomery.  Watch their World Record setting race.

Earlier in 2014, Montgomery Fire/Rescue Team "Blue" won 1st Place at the National Firefighter Combat Challenge in Montgomery. The team had the best time at 1 minute and 11 seconds, which is only 4 seconds away from the world record time.

         

The combat challenge team comprises the top MF/R members with the fastest times in completing the Montgomery Fire/Rescue Job Task Analysis. A total of 56 personnel tried out for the team, and the top nine participants were selected.

Montgomery Fire/Rescue competed in its first competition in Albertville, Alabama, on May 8, 2010. We had two different relay teams and one two-man tandem team qualify for the world competition, with an overall time less than 1:50:00. The five-man team broke a state record at this competition. The three fastest times of the five-man team are added together for an overall time, and this total time was 7:12:42.

The Challenge seeks to encourage firefighter fitness and demonstrate the profession's rigors to the public. Wearing "full turnout gear," pairs of competitors race as they simulate the physical demands of real-life firefighting by performing a linked series of five tasks including climbing the five-story tower, hoisting, chopping, dragging hoses and rescuing a life-sized, 175-pound "victim" as they race against themselves, their opponents and the clock.