TIFTON — There has been a plethora of pink emergency response vehicles in the Tift area lately as the local Pink Heals chapter partnered with the National Pink Heals tour to make home visits around the area.

The Pink Heals National Tour operates by the sale of merchandise, gifts, local sponsorship and in kind donations to maintain the vehicles, buy gas and travel across the country to visit individuals and share the program.  

Tour drivers volunteer up to 21 days at a time to drive pink fire trucks and police cars across America and deliver the Pink Heals Program to communities. Local chapters partner with local businesses for home visits in order to provide visit recipients with donated goods, gift cards and services and to give the employees of those businesses the opportunity to bring joy, love and hope to people in need.

The national tour visit ran Oct. 4 and 5.

The event began with a fundraiser at the Tifton Mall. There was a bounce house, dunking booth and multiple pink firetrucks.

On Oct. 5 the national tour and the local chapter partnered to make home visits.

Pink Heals visited Eunice Mixon at Cypress Pond, followed by Brooks Baker in Sylvester, Lusshain Weeks at Ameris Bank and Sherry Potts at her home.

Mixon has multiple medical issues and had been in the hospital. Baker has been diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphoma, Weeks was recently diagnosed with breast cancer and Potts is battling breast cancer.

Each patient was able to sign the local and national fire trucks, and those who lost a loved one were allowed to sign in memory of those people.

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