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HIGH POINT -- This weekend, the city of High Point will go pink as it celebrates cancer survivorship. The Pink Heals Tour is designed to raise awareness and money for the fight against cancer. Firefighters are traveling across the US, wearing pink hats, shirts and driving pink fire trucks.

Joanne Fortkiewicz is hoping the platelets she's getting, will give her the energy she needs to walk in Saturday's Pink Heals Tour parade. “It's going to be emotional, it's going to be, you know when I think about it now it just means a lot that we are all together on this," said Fortkiewicz. "You know we're all fighting it, no matter how, whether we've had it, we're survivors, whether it's friends, whether it's family.”

Firefighters from across the country are doing this tour to raise awareness about what patients like Fortkiewicz are going through. “We're going to be welcoming five pink fire trucks," said High Point Firefighter and organizer Danny Baughman. "They're carrying thousands of signatures of women who battled cancer or have battled cancer. It's a very meaningful inspiration to pull these trucks into your community and to inspire a woman battling the disease."

Thousands are expected to line the streets as the tour makes its only stop in the state, all to raise money and awareness. In High Point that money will go to Loveline, a program to help cancer patients struggling financially. “We provide them with assistance for utilities, for medication, for insurance co-pays, transportation, many of the things that don't stop recurring as bills just because you've been diagnosed with cancer,” said Oncology Planning Program Liason at High Point Regional Health System Janet Forrest.

Fortkiewicz says she's looking forward to seeing a sea of pink. “Anything that we can put out in the spotlight, I think is a big help," she said. "We need it for research and we need it for just putting it out there so people can be aware."