One Firefighter from Niagara Falls is spending his winter training to take on the World’s Strongest Firefighter competition in March.
Niagara Falls Firefighter Paul Emmick has been training as a power lifter and now a strongman for 20 years. “I feel so much stronger in my core, my lower back and my hips from doing these types of movements,” Paul said.
Paul puts that strength to very good use, carrying hoses and sometimes people during his work days at the fire department. “Not only having the physical challenge and everything that comes with firefighting itself, but being able to be the first one on scene,” Paul said.
He has been a firefighter for the past 2 years, fulfilling a personal mission to help people in need. Paul set out to make a difference after his brother died from a drug overdose in 2015.