1. On November 21,1980, Dan Goodwin witnessed the MGM Grand fire in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States, including the inability of the Clark County Fire Department and the supporting fire departments to rescue scores of hotel guests trapped inside.
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Dan Goodwin's plan included his climbing up the building and connecting cables to the floors to enable rescue baskets to be ferried to and from helicopters.
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The fire chief told Goodwin he needed to climb a building to learn of the dangers of high-rise firefighting and rescue.
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On Memorial Day, May 25,1981, wearing a Spider-Man suit and using suction cups, camming devices, and sky hooks, Dan Goodwin scaled the then-tallest building in the world, the 110-story Sears Tower in Chicago, Illinois.
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For seven hours, Dan Goodwin fought the high-altitude winds, slippery glass, and repeated attempts by the Chicago Fire Department to stop him.
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Dan Goodwin said he scaled the building to call attention to inadequacies in high-rise firefighting and rescue.
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On November 7,1981, wearing a Spider-Man suit and using suction cups along with his hands and feet, Dan Goodwin scaled the 56-story Renaissance Tower in Dallas, Texas.
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Dan Goodwin said he made the climb to keep a promise he made to a young Dallas resident stricken with cystic fibrosis.
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On November 11,1981, wearing a wetsuit disguised as a Spider-Man suit and using a climbing device he designed for the building, Dan Goodwin scaled the 100-story John Hancock Center in Chicago.
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Dan Goodwin said he made the climb to call attention to the inability to successfully fight fires in high-rise buildings.
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On Memorial Day, May 30,1983, using suction cups for the first four floors before switching to a camming device he connected to the building's window-washing track, Dan Goodwin scaled the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City.
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Dan Goodwin attached an American flag, the same one he taped to the Sears Tower in 1981, to the upper-most floor of the North Tower in tribute to Americans who died in war.
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On June 26,1986, Dan Goodwin scaled the world's tallest structure at the time: the CN Tower in Toronto, Ontario.
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Dan Goodwin's climb was a sponsored publicity event celebrating the CN Tower's tenth anniversary.
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On September 6,2010, Dan Goodwin scaled the Millennium Tower in San Francisco, California, United States.
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In tribute to the United States, Dan Goodwin attached a United States flag to the top of the Millennium Tower, the same flag he attached to the top of Chicago's Sears Tower in 1981 and to the top of the North Tower of New York's World Trade Center in 1983.
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On March 1,2014, Dan Goodwin scaled the Torre Telefonica Chile in Santiago, Chile, to establish a new world record of 433 feet for the longest lead climb on a single rope.
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Dan Goodwin did not participate in the championship, serving instead as a commentator for CBS Sports.