CCFD to Participate in 9/11 Memorial Stair Climb

Cathedral City Public Safety Workers to Participate in 9/11 Memorial Stair Climb

MORONGO — The Morongo Reservation Fire Department is hosting its annual 9/11 Memorial Stair Climb on Sept. 11 at the Morongo Casino Resort & Spa in Cabazon. This event honors the firefighters and emergency responders who lost their lives during the 9/11 attacks by having participants climb the equivalent of 110 stories, symbolizing the World Trade Center towers.

Capt. Corey Goddard, president of the Cathedral City Professional Firefighters Association, is leading a team in the 9/11 Memorial Stair Climb. To date, the team has 177 members; nine are from the Cathedral City Public Safety Department, he said.

More are expected to join the team before Sept. 11.

“We do it to honor those that lost their lives on 9/11, raise funds for the National Fallen Firefighter Foundation, and work together as a team in unity,” Goddard said.

This isn’t the first time Cathedral City firefighters have participated in an event like this. in 2019, a team of Cathedral City firefighters and dispatchers climbed 110 flights of stairs to honor those who made the ultimate sacrifice on Sept. 11th. It was the team’s fifth year of participation in the San Diego 9/11 Memorial Stair Climb. The climb took place at Hilton San Diego Bayfront.

Each 9/11 Memorial Stair Climb participants pays tribute to a FDNY firefighter by climbing or walking the equivalent of the 110 stories of the World Trade Center. Your individual tribute not only remembers the sacrifice of an FDNY brother, but symbolically completes their heroic journey to save others. Through firefighter and community participation we ensure that each of the 343 firefighters is honored and that the world knows that we will never forget. These Climbs help the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation create and maintain programs that support fire service survivors. Your support of the 9/11 Memorial Stair Climb events provides assistance to the surviving families and co-workers of the 343 firefighters who made the ultimate sacrifice on September 11, 2001.