Climbing for a cause

Washougal and ECFR firefighters will participate in Seattle Stair Climb

Washougal Volunteer Firefighters Jake Grindy, Tyler McMahon and Dustin Bross (from left to right) plan to participate in the “Scott Firefighter Stair Climb” Sunday, March 11, in Seattle. WFD Firefighter Ron Nickles and East County Fire & Rescue Firefighters/Emergency Medical Technicians John Prasch and Kelby Kiedrowski are not pictured. The event will raise money for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.

Washougal Volunteer Firefighters Jake Grindy, Tyler McMahon and Dustin Bross (from left to right) plan to participate in the “Scott Firefighter Stair Climb” Sunday, March 11, in Seattle. WFD Firefighter Ron Nickles and East County Fire & Rescue Firefighters/Emergency Medical Technicians John Prasch and Kelby Kiedrowski are not pictured. The event will raise money for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. Dawn Feldhaus

Washougal Volunteer Firefighter Jacob “Jake” Grindy plans to be among the more than 1,500 individuals who will climb 1,311 steps in Seattle.

Grindy will be joined by Washougal volunteers Tyler McMahon and Dustin Bross and paid firefighter Ron Nickles, as well as East County Fire & Rescue Firefighters/Emergency Medical Technicians John Prasch and Kelby Kiedrowski, in the "Scott Firefighter Stair Climb" Sunday, March 11.

The event, which will take place in the Columbia Center, raises money for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.

"It's a really good cause and a fun way to make money for the society," Grindy said. "I've been affected, as many people have, with cancer in my family. I think this is a good way to give back."

For more of this story, see the Camas-Washougal Post-Record print edition.