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GlenorchygirlssupremeGlenorchy’s female firefighters were theSouth’s supreme wajax wranglers, winningeight trophies at the recent 41st Wajax ruralfirefighting competition in Omarama thatattracted teams from all over Southland AndOtago.Glenorchy’s Eraina Temple, Hayley Douglasand sisters Jess and Nicole Scott (picturedwith a proud CFO Dick Watson) won all threeof the weekend’s female team challenges.“We won all three races, got the trophy forfinishing top of the ladies, one for the leastnumber of penalties, the combined one for allthree runs added up and, probably the best– the award for most consistent out of all 20teams, including the men,” she said.Photo – ODT.Rolleston RCR championRolleston is the new national RCR champion,heading off 16 other brigades at the NationalRoad Crash Rescue Challenge held inQueenstown.CFO Nigel Lilley ruefully points out that thebrigade does get a lot of hands-on time as ithas two state highways running through itsdistrict. The challenge practice has flow-onbenefits, he points out, noting that a recentjob was quite similar to a scenario the teamhad just trained in and firefighters were ableto slip into the job seamlessly, without havingApril 2012to second-guess what others were doing.The Rolleston team was John Trounson,Dean Shuttleworth, Glenn Manning, MartinTier, Scott Garriock, Shannon Austin, withmanager Glenn Cockburn.Skytowera selloutThe 2012 Firefighter Sky Tower Stair Climbhas achieved rock concert status, withpositions on the run selling out in 13 hoursand 10 min.All other entries are on a waiting list forthe May 19 event. Tony Scott said last yearorganisers accommodated everyone on thewaiting list, but that cannot be guaranteed.As people pull out of the event their spacewill be filled by those on the waiting listonly.The organisers are shooting for a million.Another $240,000 this year will make agrand total of $1,000,000 in eight years.Three teams forAustralasian RCRRolleston, Feilding and Whitianga willrepresent New Zealand in the AustralasianRoad Rescue Challenge, 26 to 29 April inHobart. Twenty-two teams are enteredwith Singapore sending a team for the firsttime.7challengeschallengeschallenges