The New Zealand Fire Service Magazine

...Even
though
I’m Blue
Recently, Papatoetoe Brown Watch’s Ange Munro, Ian Tanner and Rochelle Martin took part
12 Issue No. 37
Training
Blue’s captain Troy
Flavell gets to grip
with a branch.
Ange Munro issues
some firm orders
to members of the
Blues training squad.
Given her record of achievement over the last 12 months,
Ange was ideally placed to put the team through its paces.
Ange picks up the story…
The day started with a trip to Mt Wellington to pick
up loads of gear: two appliances, a 30 x 70mm hose, a
10 x 45mm hose, stoke baskets, bucket lines and a few
odds and ends. We then headed off to Unitech where the
Blues have their training grounds and facilities.
The Blues squad was divided into three teams of
7-9 guys. First they did a warm up activity, I got them
carrying a stokes basket with a team member in it
around a set course. This course involved running up
hills, crossing a stream, running up and down stairs and
a lot of running around grass areas. Four team members
had to wear BA sets.
Next was the Combat Course. We had set up three courses
so the teams could race against each other one at a time.
The Combat Course I set up for them had them running
up a 15m hill with a 15kg riser hose over their
shoulder, hauling up a 20kg foam drum from the bottom,
racing down the hill and on to a force machine, moving a
sleeper 1m with a 5kg sledgehammer, running 20m to a
charged delivery, running out the delivery, shooting at a
target 10m away and finishing with a 30m dummy drag.