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Fire-fighting sport
Fire-fighting sport (Russian : пожарно-прикладной спорт) - a sport discipline developed in the Soviet Union in 1937. It includes a competition between various fire fighting teams in fire fighting-related exercizes, such as : climbing by special stairs in a high floor of a mock-up house, unfolding a water hose, extinguishing a fire using by hoses or extinguishers. International competitions took place since 1968.

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