The fire station that hauled a 13.5 metre fire service ladder 67 miles around the island for charity in 2011 are at it again, this time running for 48 hours in a human-sized hamster wheel.
Firefighters from Ryde Fire Station are determined to make their mark on this year’s major fire-service-backed fundraising initiative, ‘100 Here 100 There’.
Ryde’s former Watch Manager, Kelvin Wright, is again the driving force behind the plan to raise £20k for the Wessex Cancer Trust and additional funds for Seeds for Change and the Firefighters Charity. When he explained the plan to his former colleagues at Ryde he knew only too well that the guys at Station A4 would come up with something a little bit different.
Firefighters are currently engaged in hamster-styled running trials and you can see them do the 48 hour challenge for real from Friday 26th July at 15:00 right through until the same time on the Sunday afternoon at Ryde’s Western Gardens.
The only time the wheel can stop is for crew changeovers, other than that the wheel must continue for the entire forty-eight hour period which means a really fun spell of nocturnal long distance running for some unlucky members of the station.
Island Echo asks for our reader’s support by joining us at Ryde’s Western Gardens on 26th July to cheer on the firefighters and to donate generously.
