Recently my Explorer post attended a Competition. We competed against 5 teams and did very well. We competed in 6 events which were, Quick Dress, Tool Identification, Hose Entanglement, Bucket Brigade, Tug-O-War, and building a Water Chute. We won first place in Water Chute, third in Tug-O-War, third in Bucket Brigade (these were team events), first and second in Tool identification (this was a personal event as was quick dress and Hose Entanglement) and we won first and second in Quick Dress.

Quick dress is going from street clothes to your bunker gear in less than 2:00 minutes. The fastest guy in our post can dress in an amazing 39 (will post video latter check back latter).

This was the Hose Entanglement the object of this event was to Start at the hydrant and take hold of the hose and when they say go than you try to get to the nozzle as quickly as you could, O and I forgot to add you are blind folded. I did not finish infact not many did, the winner spent 17 minutes on the hose. I spent about five minutes.

Here are some pictures from this event.

Looks hard hu? It was.

This is me trying very very hard not to get lost in the mess.

This was us building a Water Chute. The purpose of a water chute (very simply) is to collect water from a leek.

This is the finished product.

Tug-O-War.

Bucket Brigade. In this event your team each takes a bucket, fills it with water and dumps it into a barrel. Whoever's team could fill the barrel up the fastest wins.

Each man getting his bucket.

Hope every one enjoyed.