{"id":162208,"date":"2012-11-05T14:34:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-05T18:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123324724"},"modified":"2012-11-05T14:34:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-05T18:34:00","slug":"vandenberg-fire-department-takes-gold-bronze-in-international-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=162208","title":{"rendered":"Vandenberg Fire Department takes gold, bronze in international challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float:left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123324724\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" style=\"margin-right:15px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/shared\/media\/photodb\/thumbnails\/2012\/11\/121101-F-IN231-001.jpg\"<\/img><\/a><\/div>\n<p>A team of six Vandenberg firefighters competed in an international touring and television sports event Oct. 26-29 in San Diego, Calif.<\/p>\n<p>According to the event&#8217;s official website, The Firefighter Combat Challenge, otherwise known as, &#8220;the toughest two minutes in sports,&#8221; seeks to encourage firefighter fitness and demonstrate the rigors of the profession to the public. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The teams must wear full bunker gear and the SCOTT Air-Pak breathing apparatus as pairs of competitors race head-to-head,&#8221; said Dan Ardoin, Vandenberg Fire Department division chief. &#8220;Wearing the gear simulates the physical demands of real-life firefighting while the teams are performing a linked series of five tasks including climbing a 5-story tower, hoisting, chopping, dragging hoses and rescuing a life-sized, 175 pounds &#8216;victim.&#8217; Teams are racing against themselves, their opponent and the clock,&#8221; Ardoin said.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123324724\">more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-air-force-space-command"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=162208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=162208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=162208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=162208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}