Mattapoisett firefighters participated in the10th Annual Fairhaven Firefighters Muster at Livesey Park in Fairhaven on August 25, and competed against area departments from Fairhaven, Dartmouth 1, and Dartmouth 2.
In the overall event, the five Mattapoisett firefighters took third place. They took first place in the dry hose competition as well as one of the wet hose competitions, and received a couple surprise splashes to the face in the process during a second wet hose competition in which, unfortunately, some water pressure issues might have had to do with them not placing.
The much anticipated “mystery event” was an axe throwing competition brought to the event by Adam Katz from “MassAxe”, in which the team won a respectable second place.
The Mattapoisett teams total time was 6 minutes and 12 seconds, placing it in third. Dartmouth 2’s second-place time was 5 minutes and 33 seconds, and first place winner Dartmouth 1 finished in 5 minutes and 1 second.
*Beth David from The Fairhaven Neighborhood News contributed some of the information in this article.
By Jean Perry