Firefighters face off at World Championships
Damon Ortega, a firefighter from Coppell, whacks a 160-pound steel beam with a 9.6-pound dead blow hammer.
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Richard Estes, a firefighter for the City of Irving, picks up a 42-pound hose pack at the base of the five-story climb waiting for him.
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A competitor wets his gloves before stepping onto the course.
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Two competitors race to get 42 pounds of hose up five stories.
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Damon Ortega drags a charged hose line 75 feet toward his target.
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Nils Gabriel Paul, a firefighter from Germany coming up on seven years of service, fires a hose at a target after dragging it 75 feet.
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Volunteer firefighter from New Zealand, Jodi Purdie embraces her 16-year-old son, Cooper, after running the course together.
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Richard Estes kissing his wife, Sabine, after completing each evolution of the World Firefighter Challenge.
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Marsalos Roach, a freshman from Roosevelt High School, pulls a 42-pound roll of fire hose up five stories.
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One of two kittens found running out onto the course in the hands of Randi Cowan.
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The Firefighter Challenge World Championships took place Oct. 20-25 at Dallas College's Brookhaven Campus in Farmers Branch.
