Garden Route DM Firefighters are prepping for the upcoming Toughest Firefighter Alive Competition!

The eighth edition of South Africa’s ‘Toughest Firefighter Alive’ (TFA-SA) Open competition will be held at De Bakke Beach in Mossel Bay from 5 to 7 October 2023. The TFA-SA is based on the international Toughest Firefighter Alive Challenge, the blue riband event of the World Firefighter Games (WFG). The WFG started in Auckland, New Zealand 1990 and is held in a different country every two years with the winner of the TFA Competition at the WFG being crowned the World’s Toughest Firefighter Alive, a very prestigious award.

The TFA-SA South Africa’s premier firefighter event was held for the first in Cape Town at the Good Hope Centre in October 2011 with a total of approximately 80 competitors. The event has been primarily hosted in Cape Town, then in George in 2016 and with Mossel Bay hosting the event in 2022.

Firefighters from Garden Route District Municipality (GRDM) are participating in this event and are known to win several categories each year!