City firefighters prepare for yearly stairclimb event

The annual fundraiser requires firefighters to scale up the 1,311 steps of the Columbia Center in Seattle while wearing 50 pounds of firefighting equipment.

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Step by step, four firefighters from the Mountain Home Fire Department continued to prepare to tackle a yearly challenge as part of an ongoing quest to find a cure for cancer.

Elsa Guillen, Tim Schwanke, Bret Young and Nate West will join an estimated group of approximately 2,000 firefighters competing in the 34th Annual Scott Firefighter Stairclimb, scheduled for March 9 at the Columbia Center in Seattle.

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