page_title: Firefighter's Combat Challenge
section_title: Hose Hoist
hierarchical_section_title: Firefighter's Combat Challenge / Events / Hose Hoist
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context_page_description: The Firefighter Combat Challenge is the only federally funded, university-based occupational health physiological research study that has become an internationally touring and televised sports event. It's a demanding 5-event physical challenge that firefighters throughout the world participate in and try to complete with the fastest time. Competition events include a stair climb with a high-rise pack, hose hoist, forcible entry, hose advance, and a victim rescue. The primary purpose for the Firefighter Combat Challenge is to promote physical fitness, an essential part of structural firefighting.
context_section_description: The second event is the Hose Hoist. Using a hand-over-hand motion, the competitor must pull up a 42-pound (19 kg) hose roll and place it into the box on the top of the 5-story Tower. The 42 lb. prop is a donut roll of large diameter hose (LDH [plus 7 pounds [7.2 kg] of rope). Time continues from the previous event.   Loss of control (i.e., allowing the donut to fall more than one story), will result in disqualification.
caption: Hose Hoist-Competitor raising a 42 lb. donut roll up the 5 story FCC Tower
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