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What could potentially become a new tradition in St. Paul was inaugurated on Sunday, September 11th, when St. Paul Chief of Police Dan Howard, and St. Paul Volunteer Fire Department Assistant Chief Mark Wilson and Training Officer Nathan Becker took to the grandstands at the St. Paul High School football field to walk 2,071 steps in simulation of the 110 stories countless firefighters ascended as they sought to rescue those trapped on the top stories of the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers on September 11, 2001. Three hundred and forty-three firefighters and seventy-one law enforcement officers lost their lives during the rescue effort in the wake of the September 11th attacks, many of the former while attempting to climb the towers to rescue those trapped inside. In an interview on Monday, Howard said that Sunday’s enterprise had begun as a personal undertaking, part of a series of challenges that he and his best friend Adam Powell, who is currently serving in the armed services in Kuwait, exchange over social media. “He’s currently deployed in Kuwait, and, during his deployment, we have been giving each other different challenges. And one of my challenges to him was that we complete this 9/11 stair climb challenge,” said Howard. “What we do, is we video each other on Facebook Messenger, so we can confirm we’re both doing it.