This morning (February 23), four Airdrie firefighters climbed a ladder to the rooftop of Boston Pizza for a weekend campout to support Muscular Dystrophy Canada.

Kyle Mclaughlin, Todd Munro, Damon Johnson and Cassidy Kinley will stay on the roof until Sunday morning. At the outset, Munro said he expected the weather to be the most challenging part of the weekend.

"The most challenging part will probably be the evenings. I know we've got some snow coming, and I heard it's anywhere between seven to ten centimeters over the weekend."

McLaughlin is the only one of the four that has done the campout, having participated during the first one four years ago. That year, the temperature dropped to minus forty. He said his companions won't need to worry about that, but might face some other challenges.

"They obviously don't know what minus forty will be. It'll be a little better temperatures for everybody up here, and they'll probably ask me what to do up here, 'cause it gets a little boring up here sometimes, but we'll struggle through it."

Munro said that whatever the weekend throws at them, remember the good cause that has them up on the roof will keep things in perspective.

"You know, we're up here in the winter, it's a little bit uncomfortable, but these people that suffer with this disease, they have it a lot worse than what we do."

 

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