🚒 SGFPC 2025: Where the world’s best lifesavers compete in Singapore
Jakarta firefighters shine in Singapore challenge🚨🤝
🪶 The Main Takeaway
The Singapore Civil Defense Force (SCDF) held the Singapore-Global Firefighters & Paramedics Challenge (SGFPC) 2025 at Singapore Expo Hall 4 from November 20 to 21.
19 emergency responder teams from Southeast Asia, East Asia, Europe, and the Middle East joined the annual event to compete in scenario-based challenges and highlight international cooperation in firefighting and paramedicine.
🌏 Why It’s on Our Radar
The Emergency Events Database reported 393 natural hazard–related disasters worldwide in 2024, including extreme temperatures, droughts, storms, earthquakes, floods, volcanic activities, and wildfires.
Over 16,700 people lost their lives, 167.2 million were affected, and the disasters caused an estimated USD 242 billion in economic losses last year.
Through the competition, SCDF promotes joint tactics, cross-border learning, and regional capacity-building to improve firefighters' and paramedics' skills, standards, teamwork, coordination, and readiness for future disasters and accidents.
💡 What’s at Stake
🔥 Participants competed individually or in teams in three challenges:
Global Challenges:
Braveheart (Individual): A fast, high-adrenaline 8-stage race designed to test a participant’s strength, skills, and mental endurance.
Braveheart (team): The 12-member team, made up of participants from all organizations, must complete the tasks as quickly as possible while ensuring the safety of all team members and the casualty.
Rip-it-off: In a road traffic accident scenario, contestants are judged on their on-site assessment, command and control, vehicle stabilization, extrication techniques, and medical intervention skills.
Public Challenges:
School challenge: In this challenge, which involves a gas explosion and fire in a school canteen, student participants must extinguish the fire, perform CPR, and rescue a casualty with leg injuries.
Community challenge: For this kitchen fire scenario, Community First Responders activated via the myResponder app must extinguish the fire, provide basic first aid and CPR, and move the casualty to safety.
Company Emergency Response Team Challenge: Participants respond to a flash fire and partial office collapse by donning PPE, laying hoses, extinguishing the fire, and performing a confined-space snatch rescue.
Private Ambulance Operator Challenge: This challenge tests participants' ability to respond to severe injuries and heavy bleeding, including casualty management, IV fluid administration, and stabilizing lower-limb fractures.
Singapore Challenges:
Fire-medical challenge: This challenge shows SCDF’s dual-trained responders handling a simulated kitchen fire with CAF backpacks and then performing High-Performance CPR to demonstrate coordinated fire and medical response.
Confined space challenge: Rescuers race to save victims from a collapsed structure, demonstrating ORNSmen’s use of cutting and lifting tools, teamwork in confined-space rescue, and safe casualty lowering from the Mobile Height Tower.
HazMat challenge: This challenge simulates a chemical plant HazMat incident, where specialists quickly put on protective gear, contain chemical leaks, and rescue casualties from confined spaces despite the bulky equipment.
The Winners
Braveheart Challenge (Individual)
Singapore Civil Defence Force - Muhammad Zayyani Bin Shamsuddin
Vietnam Police Department of Fire and Rescue - Le Van Dung
Bureau of Fire Protection, Philippines - Jan Ray Gawidan
Rip-It-Off Challenge
Singapore Civil Defence Force
Department of Fire and Emergency Services, Western Australia
Myanmar Fire Services Department
School Challenge
NCDCC Team 1
NCDCC Team 5
Joint CD Lionhearters from Singapore Management University, Singapore University of Social Sciences, and Nanyang Technological University
Community Challenge
Pioneer C2E
Sembawang Central C2E
Nee Soon Link C2E
Company Emergency Response Team (CERT) Challenge
GlobalFoundries (B)
Aster Jurong Island
GlobalFoundries (A)
Private Ambulance Operator Challenge
Lentor Team 2
Unistrong Team 2
Lentor Team 1
Fire-Medical Challenge
3rd SCDF Division
4th SCDF Division
1st SCDF Division
Hazardous Materials Challenge
2nd SCDF Division
1st SCDF Division
4th SCDF Division
Confined Space Challenge (ORNSmen)
SCDF Marine Division
4th SCDF Division
3rd SCDF Division
📸 The Big Picture
From urban tower rescues to traffic accident extrication, SGFPC replicates real-life high-risk operations in a controlled, competitive setting.
Singapore, the first in Southeast Asia to operate electric fire pumps and rescue robots, adds a tech dimension to the contest.
🌐 The Regional Stakes
🌐 All participants are expected to help strengthen Singapore’s role as a leader in regional emergency-response hub, emergency services, disaster management, and civil-defence training.
👥 The event also helps strengthen global firefighting and rescue cooperations, as well as builds camaraderie among responders committed to saving lives.
Joining SGFPC allows firefighters and paramedics to benchmark themselves against global best practices, adopt new technologies, and strengthen regional emergency networks.
🏠 Why This Hits Home
For readers in Southeast Asia, SGFPC isn’t just a contest — it’s a tangible opportunity for local fire-and-rescue units to raise readiness, adopt innovations, and bolster their capacity to respond to major incidents.
It’s about turning competition into better preparedness and public safety outcomes.
Jakarta Firefighters Shine in Singapore Challenge
Jakarta’s firefighting team dominated the Singapore Global Firefighting & Rescue Challenge 2025, securing top positions in both team and individual categories.
This win reinforces Jakarta’s growing reputation for having one of the most skilled and competitive firefighting units in the region.
In the Braveheart Team category, Jakarta swept the podium:
Joko Rahmat Supa’at placed first
Hendro Wibowo second
Aldam Riyadin third
In the Braveheart Individual division, Hendro Wibowo ranked fourth.
The Rip It Off Team also secured fourth place in their bracket.
✨ Beyond the Headlines
🌍 SGFPC 2025 brings together local and global responders in Singapore’s largest firefighting & paramedic challenge.
🔧 Technology, teamwork, and endurance are key — from fire robots to extrication teams.
🤝 ASEAN nations gain a platform to advance regional collaboration in disaster-response and rescue operations.
📚 Need More Angles?
Reliefweb 2024 Disasters in Numbers
Singapore Civil Defense Force “About SGFPC”, Singapore Civil Defence Force.
Singapore Civil Defense Force “SGFPC 2025 Countdown”, SCDF website.
Singapore Civil Defense Force Speech by Mr Goh Pei Ming, ‘SCDF Parade and Singapore-Global Firefighters & Paramedics Challenge’.
IG @humasjakfire The Jakarta firefighting contingent has competes at#SGFPC2025
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