The 12th Annual Melbourne Firefighter Stair Climb is a charity event that will see career, volunteer firefighters, and other emergency service personnel come from all over Australasia and the world to climb 28 floors with 25kg of kit. We welcome the members of partner emergency services such as police and the state emergency service to join us too.
The event simulates the actions of a high rise building firefight and rescue operation, so is exclusively for firefighters and emergency service personnel. Those who will be competing whilst Self Contained Breathing Apparatus (SCBA) will be supplied. Dräger SCBA will be supplied to firefighters and qualified emergency service personnel to undertake the event.
In the “Donned & Started” category competitors race “on air”. For those firefighters and other emergency service personnel who don’t have a SCBA qualification, we offer the “Donned Only” Category – where they still compete in full structural firefighter gear and wearing the SCBA (or the equivalent operational PPC and equipment of their emergency service orgasanisation), but do not wear the mask.
The 1000 firefighters and Emergency Service Personnel that participate annually start at street level and climb to a finishing line on the 28th floor of the Crown Metropol Hotel.
After the event an Awards Presentation Ceremony is held that afternoon at Munich Brauhaus, where fundraising and athletic achievement will be acknowledged.
The event is operated by the 000 Foundation, a newly formed charity that is a Deductible Gift Recipient (DGR) registered with the Australian Charities and Not For Profits Commission (ACNC). The 000Foundation was founded by members of the Emergency Service sector and will provide tax deductible receipts.
The event is sponsored by Crown Resorts, Drager, Scania, Karcher, Holmatro, Gallagher Bassett and the Firefighters Mutual Bank.
This year, we are aiming to raise $1 Million for Lifeline, Peter MacCallum Cancer Foundation and the 000 Foundation to improve support services, fund research, remove stigmas and raise awareness of Mental health issues like depression, Post Traumatic Stress Injury and Suicide, especially for those within the Emergency Service and Defence communities. Our contribution to the Peter MacCallum Cancer Foundation supports research, education and real treatments for those suffering cancer.
Since the inaugural year in 2014, the event has raised over $4 Million for the Alfred Hospital Burns Unit, the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Lifeline, the Black Dog Institute, 000Foundation and the Emergency Services Foundation.