Local firefighters taking steps against cancer
Lee Hughes Staff Writer | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 10 years, 10 months AGO
SANDPOINT — Sixty-five pounds of firefighting gear, a narrow stairwell and 1,311 steps inside a 69-story West Coast skyscraper.
Firefighters aren’t rushing into the building to fight a fire, however, but to battle another, more sinister danger: cancer. They’re doing it one step at a time.
It’s a challenge five Selkirk Fire, Rescue & EMS firefighters will be taking head-on March 8 when they tackle the Columbia Center building, the second tallest building west of the Mississippi River, during the 24th annual Scott Firefighter Stairclimb in Seattle.
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