Firefighter Functional Test: Equipment Carry & Casualty Evacuation

Candidates will usually do the casualty evacuation test first, immediately followed by the equipment carry test.

Casualty Evacuation - This test requires the candidate to walk backwards (guided by a safety officer) dragging a 55kg (8 1/2 stone) dummy casualty around three sides of a 10m square (30m route). This test must be completed in a given amount of time.

Equipment Carry – This test is performed back and forth along a 25m track whilst wearing full firefighting protective clothing (which weighs around 10kg). This is not a test of memory as candidates will be reminded of the sequence of events by a safety officer.

The equipment will consist of:
One 30m (100ft) hose reel tubing on a drum
Two coiled 70mm delivery hoses
One 100mm hard suction hose and suction strainer in a basket
One 25kg barbell

The items will be laid out in the order in which they are to be used.

The test will be carried out as follows:
1. You will start by holding the hose reel at waist height.
2. Run the hose to the end of the 25m track and place it down.
3. Run/jog back to the start line and pick up 2 lengths of 70mm hose by the handles
4. Carry them up and down the course for four lengths, then place one back on the start line.
5. Pick up the other length of hose by the centre lugs and carry at chest height down to the second line and place it down, then jog 3 lengths back to the start position
6. Pick up and carry the straight silver hose and basket up and down the course for four lengths and place them back at the start line
7. Run/jog 4 lengths of the course
8. Pick up and carry barbell up and down the course for four lengths.

Candidates must complete this test in a given amount of time.

(The contents of this video are accurate at the time of publication – January 2022)

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