Fire Engine Pink?

Major League Baseball does it. The National Football League does it.

And since 2007, retired Glendale, AZ, firefighter Dave Graybill has been doing it: Swaddling uniforms and tools of the trade in pink to raise awareness for the fight against cancer.

The National Pink Heals Tour is coming to Connecticut Tuesday, Sept. 13, complete with pink fire trucks and firefighters in pink fire suits (called Guardians of the Ribbon). Graybill started the tour to raise awareness to support women fighting against all cancers, and the money raised by the tour’s appearances goes to nonprofit entities in the cities, towns and states it visits.

The tour will make stops at the Connecticut Fire Academy at 34 Perimeter Road in Windsor Locks at 1:15 p.m., the Simsbury Fire Department at 871 Hopmeadow Street in Simsbury at 2:15 p.m. and the patient-care tower at Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center in Hartford at 3:30.

The organizers request that those in attendance at the events wear the color pink.

Since its inception, the Pink Heals Tour and their Guardians of the Ribbon firefighters have hit more than 1,000 cities across the country, and the pink trucks are decorated with more than 40,000 signatures from cancer fighters, survivors and loved ones sharing messages of love and hope, according to a news release.

For more information, visit the super-pink Web site of the National Pink Heals Tour at http://www.pinkfiretrucks.org.