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This afternoon's training included individual horizontal climbing and group high-altitude mountain rescue drills.
All were practiced on the training base's rescue platform.
The group events were not that serious, really, the individual events were the real tough ones.
They were called the Ironman Quadrathlon.
Four hundred meters of supplies evacuation, a 100-meter sprint with a 32-pound barrel, another 100-meter dash, a 100-meter run with a 30-pound liquefied gas cylinder, carrying a 120-pound dummy for 50 meters, then a final 50-meter sprint.
This event has been a long-standing challenge, the pain of all firefighters.
Horizontal climbing, barehanded ascent up a 9-meter-high rock wall, after reaching the summit, immediate connection to the traverse rope, crossing over to the rescue platform 30 meters away, securing the rappel rope, descending to the ground using the quick drop method, and sprinting across the finish line.
