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 simulate 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 race against themselves, their opponent and the clock.
