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Bend firefighters do well in Seattle stairclimb event

Published March 8, 2016 10:31 am

On Sunday, Bend firefighters competed in the 25th Annual Scott Firefighter Stair Climb Challenge in Seattle. This event is a fundraiser for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society and draws firefighters from around the world to Seattle to climb 69 floors of Seattle’s tallest building, the Columbia Center.

A total of 1,800 firefighters from 7 countries, 26 states and 335 departments took part this year. They do the climb in all of their protective gear including air tank and mask, more than 60 pounds of total gear worn as they climb the 1,311 steps. Each of our firefighters carried with him a photograph of Tristan Carrion, a local 6 year old boy who is currently battling cancer.

Highlights from this year’s team:

We’ve passed our fundraising goal of $30,000 by raising nearly $40,000 for LLS!! This was all done by the support of our community, which we cannot thank enough!! (final donations have not been completed on their website as of this release)
Deputy Chief Mark Taylor has raised over $10,000 by himself this year! That puts him the 6 th highest single fundraiser this year.
Captain Scott Wyman placed 4 th overall out of nearly 1,800 competitors with a time of 12 mins, 3 seconds! That is a flight of stairs every 11 seconds!
Bend Fire Department placed 5 th as a team (top 3 fastest from a department added together to make the team time) out of 335 teams/departments represented.
That puts the Bend Fire team tops in Oregon across the board! That makes Scott the fastest competitor from Oregon, the Bend Fire Team the fastest from team from Oregon this year, Bend Fire the highest department fundraiser from Oregon and soon to be retiring Deputy Chief Mark Taylor the highest individual fundraiser from the state of Oregon.

We STILL need your help ! While all the firefighters have returned from Seattle, fundraising continues until the end of March. Each donation goes directly to the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society for blood-cancer research and patient services. Please help us make a difference in the fight against cancer! Please help the Bend Firefighters to fight cancer by going to the website: http://www.llswa.org/site/TR/Events/FirefighterStairclimb?team_id=64142&pg=team&fr_id=1500

Below are the full results of all 16 of Bend Fire Departments team members. There are many personal bests listed there. Some marked their 10 th year competing while it was a first for others. Everyone listed is looking forward to next year and to see what further marks we can obtain!

Here are the results of all 16 BFD racers (overall place, name, time and rank out of overall):

Name

Time

Place

Scott Wyman