Firefighters from Beachlands volunteer fire brigade will race up the Sky Tower for charity.
The Firefighter Sky Tower Stair Challenge is an annual event where hundreds of firefighters collect funds and race up 51 flights of the Sky Tower while wearing a full firefighting kit.
Their kits will weigh 25kg and they take on 1103 individual steps.
On Saturday, Dylan Wilde and four of his Beachlands colleagues will team up to raise vital funds and awareness for Leukaemia and Blood Cancer New Zealand (LBC). Dylan has been a firefighter for four-and-a-half years.
“Every day seven children and adults in New Zealand are diagnosed with a blood cancer like leukaemia, lymphoma and myeloma,” Wilde says.
LBC is the national charity dedicated to supporting patients and their families.
“This support can last months or even years,” Wilde says.
Wilde says they receive very little government funding and that “it’s a great cause”.
He says they’ve done one community fundraiser so far and had “great support”.
The Sky Tower Climb has been raising money for LDC foundation for seven years.
Donations for Wilde and his colleagues’ cause stay open until Friday May 21, a day before they compete in the Sky Tower Challenge.
Visit their page https://firefighterschallenge.org.nz/t/beachlandsvolunteerfirebrigade for more information and to support their cause.
