Groups paint the town pink

AUSTIN (KXAN) - A big bright pink vehicle set up shop on the University of Texas campus.

The unique vehicle's mission is to make sure students know it is not just older women who get breast cancer. Also, education about the disease needs to start earlier.

"It's really important that Susan G. Komen for the Cure gets out here, raises awareness, interacts with students on the college campus," said Maura McDermott, with Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure. "This is a target audience who might not be aware. By us being out here today, hopefully they will be."

The mobile unit is on a national tour for the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure Foundation. It converts into an interactive, hands-on learning center, hoping to reach people where they live, play and learn.

Not far away at the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum was another type of vehicle stands out. It was pink too and was promoting a similar message.

"Just spreading hope and love in the form of a pink fire truck to our women across America," said Dave Graybill with Guardians of the Ribbons . "Letting them know we as an organization: fire, police, men's men, can honor her in her fight against breast cancer by wearing her color pink."

The Austin Fire Department hosted the Guardians of the Ribbons, which is a national group made up of firefighters, police officers and other men who proudly wear pink to support women they know who have faced breast cancer bravely.