Practice English Speaking&Listening with: Bend Fire Fighters Train for Stairclimb Competition - CC
Ever climb a 69 story
building? Well on March 21
16 firefighters from the City of Bend
will compete in a stairclimb event
at Seattle's Columbia Center to raise
money for leukemia research. Here's a look
at how they train and what motivates
them to compete. The Seattle stairclimb is
a fundraiser for the lymphoma and
leukemia society of America
It's a friendly competition between firefighters
to help raise funds for
research and hopefully find a cure.
What we do is we climb the tower
in Seattle 69 flights high
1300 some odd steps
in our full gear that you
see, the full ensemble
We're here at Ray's Food today and
our firefighters are climbing on the stairclimber
to simulat what they have to do
at the stairclimb - full gear, airpack
and breathing out of a tank of air
to help make
the public aware of what we're doing and
to raise some money to take up with us in March
when we go up there. There's 16
firefighers from Bend doing this event
and we all get out
and work out together and really
try to push each other to
get in good shap for this and put up some fast times
and do the best we can.
We have an inspiration that's here locally
he's a neighbor of several of our
firefighters - his name in Daniel
he was diagnosed with
cancer and he's an inspiration to us
because this funddraising
goes directly to help find a cure
his type of cancer.
And so it's a lot more personal for me
he's friends with both my kids
and so it's really a
big inspiration, having somebody locally
that we take in and
help raise money for the cause to hopefully cure
this disease. All the firefighters from
Bend are all doing this on their own time
this is a way that we can help raise
funds for the society and help
find a cure. No one is
doing on City
time - it's all volunteer time.
I'm feeling really hot and sweaty
and tired and can't wait to get out of this
the reason we train
so we can do this without killing ourselves
Otherwise, it's hard work
you can't shed body heat in this stuff so
it wears you out in a hurry. If you like to
donate come by any
of these events we're at or
visit the city's website
or give the Fire Department a call and you can help
donate any dollar helps
and you can donate as much or as little as you can.
It's a lot of fun and
it's a great cause and
I really can't think of any
better way to do it. People love to give
when they see us out here working out
showing that we're really
putting it out there to raise money for this
