Jeana Moore walked into an Everett fire station on Sept. 9 and asked the crew to sign up as bone marrow donors.

The 73-year-old grandmother is in the middle of a 45-day, 356-mile trek that started in Seattle and will end in Olympia, with a stretch through British Columbia in between.

Her stop in Everett included a visit to the City Council, where she urged the city to proclaim a bone marrow awareness day, Snoho.com reported.

Whether the council plans to issue that proclamation is not yet clear.

Moore's granddaughter, Jada Bascom, was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia at one month old in November 2007.

Five rounds of chemotherapy and hundreds of blood transfusions followed at Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center in Spokane. According to the Jada Bascom Foundation, about 70% of patients who need a bone marrow transplant cannot find a match within their own family. No one in Jada's family was compatible.

Five thousand miles away in Germany, a young man named Torsten Huber had read a newspaper article about bone marrow donation and registered with DKMS, the German bone marrow registry. Out of 11 million people on the worldwide registry at the time, Huber was Jada's match.

She received his transplant at seven months old. She is now cancer-free.

Moore founded the Jada Bascom Foundation in Deer Park, Washington, in 2009. She has walked thousands of miles across the United States and Europe to raise awareness of donor registration. This trek, called Steps to Marrow 5, is her fifth long-distance walk for the cause.

The route runs Sept. 7 through Oct. 21. It began in Seattle's Montlake neighborhood and passes through Everett, Marysville and Arlington. It then crosses into British Columbia, continues to Vancouver Island and returns by ferry to the Olympic Peninsula before ending in Olympia.

The 356.2 planned walking miles exclude two ferry crossings. Ten of the 45 days are designated Bone Marrow Awareness Days with no walking scheduled.

On the foundation's website, Moore explained why she chose walking over other forms of outreach. "A person arriving on foot invites a question: Why are you doing this?" she wrote. "That question gave me the chance to tell Jada's story."

As of Sept. 17, the walk was on schedule, with Moore heading north along the Chuckanut Drive corridor near Larrabee State Park in Whatcom County. In a Sept. 15 dispatch, she encouraged anyone already on the National Marrow Donor Program registry to update their contact information. That way, if they turn out to be someone's match, the program can reach them.

Residents interested in joining a donor registry or supporting the walk can visit jadabascomfoundation.org.