Firefighters wear pink to promote breast cancer awareness

This month, North County firefighters are taking part in a national campaign in which firefighters are honoring women who are fighting breast cancer. Firefighter/paramedic Matt Lindsey, who is heading up the local campaign, said that the trend in fire service today is to educate the public in injury and disease prevention.

To help show their support of breast cancer awareness, the firefighters have been wearing pink ribbon pins on their uniforms during October and will be wearing pink shirts instead of their blue shirts from Oct. 20 to 22. The firefighters hope that local residents will see th...