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Hall Fire Services aim to host 2016 national combat challenge
Department looking for sponsors to help team travel, compete in 2015 world finals
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Adrian Hamilton of Hall County Fire Services blasts the target with a hose Aug. 14 as he competes in the Hall County Firefighter Combat Challenge at the Stonebridge Village parking lot in Flowery Branch. Hamilton is part of a team the department hopes to send to a world competition in October.
Following Hall County Fire Services’ first Firefighter Combat Challenge Aug. 14-15 in Flowery Branch, the department set its sights on a world finals competition in October and hosting a national competition next year. After the department’s third-place finish in the team event at the combat challenge, Deputy Fire Chief Chad Black said the team hopes to find sponsors to keep it going. The turnout at the event prompted discussion between Hall County and the combat challenge organizers about returning to Northeast Georgia.