South Wales FRS Regional Extrication Trauma and Rope Challenge 2025

South Wales FRS Regional Extrication, Trauma and Rope Challenge 2025

Organised by South Wales Fire and Rescue Service

Event date: Saturday 26th April 2025

Venue: Cardiff Gate Training & Development Centre, Church Road, Cardiff, CF3 6YA

Cardiff Gate Training and Development Centre will be hosting an all Wales and regional extrication, trauma and rope challenge.

Extrication, trauma and rope teams from around the UK are invited to compete and be assessed in devised challenge scenarios.

UPDATE (10th Feb): places for the extrication and rope challenge are now full! However, there are trauma challenge places available!

UPDATE (13th Feb): places for the extrication and rope challenge are full! However, there is 1 trauma challenge place available!

UPDATE (05th Mar): all challenge places are taken up!

For further information please contact: Susanne Avery, Event Co-ordinator s-avery@southwales-fire.gov.uk

Photo of the UKRO assessors
UKRO assessors marking a team on their medical, technical and command merits
Photo of the extrication challenge
Extrication team attending an upside down vehicle during a challenge
Photo of the extrication challenge
Extrication challenge in process
Photo of the extrication challenge
An extrication team assesses a mock road traffic collision incident
A crowd spectating the extrication challenge
A crowd spectating an extrication challenge
Photo of the trauma challenge
Medics tends to a casualty during a trauma challenge
Photo of the trauma challenge
A trauma team tends to a casualty during a trauma challenge
Photo of extrication challenge
An extrication team stabilises a vehicle involved in a mock road traffic collision incident during a challenge