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Downtown Vegas zipline benefiting UMC patients

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Daredevils are invited to fly down the Fremont Street Experience to help raise money for the UMC Center for Transplantation's Patient Assistant and Education Fund.

Flightlinez and the Fremont Street Experience will donate all net proceeds from today's rides to the UMC Center for Transplantation.

Rides are $15 from noon until 6 p.m.

From 6 p.m. to midnight, rides are $20.

Transplant patients and their physicians will ride the zip line at 1:30 p.m. and CEO Brian Brannman will join in at 4 p.m.

UMC is the only hospital in Nevada to offer kidney transplant services.

More than 580 people have received a kidney transplant at UMC since 1989.

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