Above: When Fay School was building a new ropes course, they invested in designing it for use by Southborough firefighters for training exercises. (contributed photo)
Fay School shared news about a new ropes course they built on campus. This one is designed to help out our Town firefighters with their training:
Fay is excited to launch a new, state-of-the-art, component to the ropes course on campus—one that will directly benefit the Southborough Fire Department.
Plans for a new ropes course were already underway this past summer when Bob Rojee, Fay’s Director of FaySummer and Auxiliary Programs, learned of a unique opportunity to help the local Southborough community.
At a “Celebrating our Local Heroes” event at FaySummer Day Camp, Bob learned that the Southborough Fire Department had lost the funding for the tactical ropes training they do on a regular basis to maintain firefighters’ rappelling and rope rescue skills.
As a result, Fay decided to invest additional funds and build a platform tower that the Southborough Fire Department will use as their regular ropes training facility.
The new tower, which reaches 37 feet up to the belay cables, gives Southborough’s firefighters a place to practice throwing ladders and belaying—and Fay students and summer campers will now have access to a state-of-the-art challenge and adventure course with 11 new high ropes elements, where they will also be able to learn rappelling.
All 21 of the Southborough Fire Department’s full-time firefighters and their six volunteers will train on the ropes course once a month beginning this spring.
