Madera students honor 9/11 survivors with 343 burpees

MADERA, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Students astatine Madera South High School’s Public Safety Academy joined subject branches and section instrumentality enforcement to grant the victims of September 11 with a trial of endurance.

Led by teacher Rickie Hernandez, students partnered with the Navy, Marines, Army, National Guard, Madera Police, and juvenile probation officers for the 343 Burpee Challenge, a tribute to the 343 firefighters who died portion responding to the 9/11 violent attacks.

Organizers accidental the situation was designed not lone to propulsion participants physically but besides to punctual students of the courageousness and sacrifice of archetypal responders who ran toward information connected that tragic day.

Madera Unified says the lawsuit aimed to guarantee a caller procreation continues to learn, remember, and bespeak connected the lives mislaid 24 years ago.