Maricopa final stop for Pink Heals Tour

The Maricopa Fire Department will welcome the Pink Heals Tour on its final stop of the 2012 campaign.

The trucks and the men and women of the Pink Heals Organization will be on display at the Maricopa Fire Department administration office at 44624 W. Garvey Ave. 9 a.m. to noon Saturday.

“As a fire department, we’re just spreading the word for them,” Brad Pitassi, Maricopa Fire Department spokesman, said. “But we couldn’t be more excited to help and support them.”

The Pink Heals organization was founded in 2007 to help those battling all cancers, specifically women. The tour raises funds for people, not causes.

Former firefighter Dave Graybill founded The Pink Heals Tour and the Cares Enough to Wear Pink program.

“The Pink Heals Tour and the Cares Enough to Wear Pink program is about our community, our family, our neighbors and our leaders and how it will help bring us back together to focus on our own people now, rather than on promises that were never kept, opportunities that were lost, and things that might have been,” Graybill said on the tour’s website. “Pink will heal as long as we do it in service to our women and what they mean to us in our communities, not just because they are sick or stricken with cancer. Because if we use illness as the sole motivation for action, once the sickness is gone, so is our cause for coming together.”

This year’s tour began July 27 in Sedona and made stops in New Mexico, Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Washington, Oregon, California, and Nevada.

More information is available by visiting www.PinkFireTrucks.org or contacting firefighter Jared Hobson, [email protected], 602-541-0729 or engineer Carlos Schulz, [email protected], 623-826-2816.