By John Heinis
for the Jersey Journal

NORTH HUDSON, N.J. – North Hudson firefighters are seeing red after being told they can’t be seen at a fire wearing the pink T-shirts they purchased to participate in this month’s Breast Cancer Awareness campaign.

According to Tom Calucci, vice president of the North Hudson Firefighters Association, firefighters with North Hudson Regional Fire and Rescue received permission from the department brass in September to participate in this month’s national Pink for a Cure campaign.

The firefighters ordered and paid for the T-shirts; and the lion share were sold to raise money for Susan G. Komen for the Cure, a foundation dedicated to finding a cure for breast cancer, Calucci said.

But NHRFR officials have told firefighters the T-shirt can only be worn inside firehouses, or when in public, underneath their fire coats or department-issued T-shirts, Calucci said.

“Practice has been for fire alarms and accidents that your fire coat is required, no one is arguing that,” Calucci said. “However, after you walk out of a burning building or extinguish a fire, it is not uncommon to take the jacket off, and that has never been a problem.”

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