Today Saturday 17th May, firefighters will race to raise $1 million for Leukaemia & Blood Cancer New Zealand (LBC). They’ll be racing up 1,103 stairs of Auckland’s iconic Sky in the Firefighter Sky Tower Stair Challenge.
700 firefighters including the Raglan team (Leanna Darby, John Oetzel, Stephen O’Byrne, Brett Soanes) will race up the Sky Tower wearing 25kg of equipment and breathing apparatus.
The annual Firefighter Sky Tower Stair Challenge is this year celebrating its tenth anniversary The event has grown exponentially over the years. The first Firefighter Sky Tower Stair Challenge in 2005 was led by 88 firefighters, and raised just over $17,000. This year more than 180 brigades from across the country will take part, and firefighters from as far afield Australia, USA and Hawaii are all travelling to compete in the event.
Good luck to our Raglan members doing the Sky tower stair challenge today.
- Leanna Darby.
- John Oetzel.
- Stephen O’Byrne.
- Brett Soanes.
You can sponsor our Raglan team here