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This year's Firefighter Sky Tower Stair Challenge has raised more than a million dollars for Leukaemia and Blood Cancer New Zealand. 750 accepted the challenge to climb the stairs to the top of the 51-floor structure today, each wearing 25 kgs of firefighting kit, including members of a team who ran a relay from Bluff to participate, fundraising along the way. Also successfully scaling the tower was the "20 Squad" made up of non-firefighters: media personalities and major sponsors such as the Chief Executive of Sky City, Nigel Morrison, who during today's climb got to know each of the tower's 1,103 steps very well indeed! Brigade members managed traffic in streets around Sky Tower to ensure the event went smoothly and safely, at the same time maintaining access for the public to all Sky City facilities which had to remain open during the "invasion" of firefighters from throughout New Zealand plus their friends and family
