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Zach Schade of Seattle Fire Station 8 takes second in stairclimb

March 8th, 2009 · 12 Comments

Zach Schade (41) of Seattle Fire Station 8 of Queen Anne raced straight to the top of the Columbia Center on Sunday in just 11 minutes and 29 seconds, his fastest time ever.  After being a two-time champion of the Scott Firefighter Stairclimb in 2007 and 2008, this year was not going to be another.  According to the unofficial results posted by the Leukemia-Lymphoma Society, Kory Burgess (27) of Missoula Rural Fire took first place this year with a time of 10 minutes, 55 seconds.

The annual stairclimb, as reported in the Seattle Times, was 69 flights, 1,311 steps and involved 1500 participants.



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