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Dress Requirements

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The Tyler Fire Department will provide a helmet, 50 lb. weighted vest (that simulates the weight of an air pack), and gloves.

Participants will need to wear a t-shirt, shorts, jogging pants, tennis shoes or boots.

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All of the following tasks must be completed but are untimed. 

Confined space - applicants must negotiate a thirty (30) foot long narrow crawl space with low ceiling height, as low as two (2) foot with obstacles while wearing a SCBA face piece, helmet and a 50 pound weighted vest simulating the weight of an air pack, bunker coat, bunker pants and boots.

Heights/balance - while wearing the same gear as required in the confined space test, must walk 8" beam/harness and safety line - 8 ft. high, 18 ft. long (no SCBA face piece worn). Must be able to complete without difficulty.

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The following activities must be completed within 6 minutes.

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• Stair Climb - Must climb 3 flights of stairs with 42 pounds of 1-1/2 inch hose, place hose in designated area, and continue.

•  Hose Hoist - Must pull 42 pound donut roll of fire hose (equivalent weight of an extension ladder, smoke extractor fan, 50 foot section of 2-1/2" fire hose) up to 35 feet, pick up 1-1/2" hose, descend stairs, place hose in designated area, and continue.

•  Forcible entry -  Using a 9 pound slot mallet, must drive a 165 pound object 5 ft. and continue.

•  Hose Advance -  Must negotiate the 140 foot slalom course, then pick up the nozzle end of the 1-3/4 inch charged hose line and drag it a distance of 75 feet. Once the nozzle crosses the threshold at 75 feet, place the nozzle on the pavement and continue

•  Victim Rescue - drag backwards 185 pound dummy a distance of 106 feet. The entire dummy must cross the line. (This will conclude the Physical Ability Test)