Silverdale Volunteer Fire Brigade

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>> national firefighter conference & challenges

... March 2008 - Richmond, Nelson

Earlier this year in March, the UFBA held their national conference and challenges in Richmond, Nelson. together with the main confernce, lots of events are held including fire safety education and demonstrations, specialist forums, road crash rescue challenge and the fire fighter combat challenge.

Silverdale Volunteer Fire Brigade , through regional heats, qualified to send a road crash rescue team, a four man combat challenge team and three individual entrants for the combat challenge event.

combat challenge:

More commonly known as the "toughest two minutes in sport", the fire fighter combat challenge is a grueling multi disciplined event aimed to simulate different aspects of fire fighting. Our three individual entrants peformed very highly in a extremely competative field, finishing 13th and 20th overall. Our four man relay team however, made amasing time through their heats to make the finals and finished a very impressive 3rd overall. Winning the bronze medal and becoming the *fastest volunteer team in the country

*"home of the fastest volunteers in the country" based on the 2008 Nelson Firefighter Combat Challenge four man relay. Silverdale Volunteers 3rd place after Trentham Fire Brigade (1st) and the Royal New Zealand Air Force (2nd) combat challenge teams.

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road crash rescue:

The road crash rescue is well attended, highly professional event based upon different scenarios of various vehicle extrication techniques. with teams of 6 members, an officer, a medic, three tool operators and a reserve, they have to work in unison and under specific guidance from their officer to sucessfully perform the tasks in disciplines of "Immediate; Controlled and Entrapment".

This was the teams first national competitons and they performed excellent. Gaining 7th place overall, with special commendations for their technical and team leader skills.

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