Photo By Sgt. Garett Hernandez | Firefighters from Fort Bragg’s Department of Emergency Services stand with the pink...... read more read more
This month, the good guys wear pink on Fort Bragg.
Emergency Personnel from Fort Bragg’s Department of Emergency Services will be wearing pink gloves and shirts to help raise breast cancer awareness during the month of October.
“It’s not much,” say Jason Haluski, a firefighter with Fort Bragg’s Department of Emergency Services. “But it shows the community that we care about the issues that affect them and us. You’d be hard pressed to find somebody whose life hasn’t been touched by cancer.”
Fort Bragg Emergency Medical Services and firefighters will be wearing pink Because We Care gloves on all calls they respond to during the month of October and a pink t-shirt will be the official duty uniform of all firefighters, supervisors, chief officers, and several administrators during the last week of October, replacing the normal blue button up shirts firefighters normally wear.
“It grabs people’s attention to see a group of guys come into a building or onto the scene of a medical emergency wearing pink gloves,” says Haluski.
Department of Emergency Services personnel will not only be raising awareness with the shirts on their backs and the gloves on their hands, their feet will be doing some of the talking.
Off-duty firefighters from Fort Bragg’s Department of Emergency Services will be taking part in a walk sponsored by the Warrior Angels, a support group specifically for women from the Fort Bragg community who have been diagnosed with breast cancer.
“Our community is not immune to the health and social issues facing any other community in the US.,” says Haluski. When people see us, we want them to know that we support Fort Bragg, the soldiers, and their families.”
| Date Taken: | 10.15.2010 |
| Date Posted: | 10.21.2010 15:18 |
| Story ID: | 58580 |
| Location: | FORT BRAGG, NORTH CAROLINA, US |
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