FIREFIGHTER AIMS FOR HEARTS, SLEEVES VALENCIA COMPANY TO MAKE SYMBOL OF SOLIDARITY FOR ALL THOSE IN UNIFORM.Byline: Mary Schubert Staff Writer SOUTH PASADENA - For two months, firefighters have worn their hearts on their sleeves - shaken that so many in their ranks perished in the World Trade Center disaster - and done anything they can to help the fallen. Brett Hill hopes to put a symbol of that grief and solidarity on the sleeves of all American firefighters. Hill, a firefighter-paramedic with the South Pasadena Fire Department, has created a patch he plans to mail to the fire chief of every department in the nation - about 28,000 big city, suburban, county, federal and volunteer forces. Hill teamed with a friend, Robert Sebel, who owns a Valencia embroidery business that makes uniform patches for law enforcement, fire and emergency personnel. Critical Wear will manufacture the patches, and Hill will sell them to fire service workers for about $3 each, which may not be enough to cover their costs. Any proceeds will go to the New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. firefighters' widows and children's fund. ``Everybody can look down at their shoulder and say this is really New York's badge of courage, but we're wearing it in their honor,'' he said. Hill, a 16-year veteran of the SPFD SPFD Springfield SPFD Scalar Potential Finite-Difference SPFD Stiffened Plate Floor Deck (construction) SPFD Self-Powered Flux Detector , said the idea came to him as he watched firefighters from around the country to help at Ground Zero or provide relief to New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of stations that lost firefighters. ``My thought was, What was my part in this whole thing?'' Hill said. He noticed that Major League Baseball "MLB" and "Major Leagues" redirect here. For other uses, see MLB (disambiguation) and Major Leagues (disambiguation). Major League Baseball (MLB) is the highest level of play in North American professional baseball. gave teams permission to alter their uniforms. Mets and Yankees players wore NYPD NYPD New York City Police Department (since 1845; New York City, NY, USA) NYPD New York Play Development and FDNY FDNY Fire Department New York (New York City, NY, USA) FDNY Fort Drum, New York (US Army) caps to honor the dead, and flag patches were sewn onto all big-league jerseys. ``I thought if the (National Football League) and baseball can do something like this, why can't the firefighters?'' Hill said. He estimated that if every firefighter orders three patches - enough to affix affix v. 1) to attach something to real estate in a permanent way, including planting trees and shrubs, constructing a building, or adding to existing improvements. to each set of uniforms they own until the anniversary - Critical Wear could manufacture about 3 million. ``We want to get this on everyone's uniform by the first of the year,'' Hill said. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: (color -- ran in AV edition only) no caption (September 11, 2001 WE WILL NEVER FORGET) |
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