Photo: Colo. fire trucks sporting new look for summer

Aspen Times

ASPEN, Colo. — Local emergency-service personnel are hitting the streets in style thanks to a new look on their vehicles.

Their trucks and cars are being covered in murals of large flowers that will stay in place all summer long. The murals were painted by students from local and Los Angeles schools, hospital patients in Denver and Los Angeles and others, including some of the personnel, all through a project called Portraits of Hope.

Portraits of Hope is an organization through which young hospital patients and students paint murals that become high-profile works of art, which provides creative therapy for the patients and educates young people about civic responsibility. Fire engines, ambulances, cars and ATVs owned by the Snowmass Wildcat Fire Protection District, the Aspen Ambulance District, Mountain Rescue Aspen and the Aspen Fire Protection District are all being transformed right now in the North 40 Fire Station.

Full story: Aspen/Snowmass firetrucks, ambulances sporting a new look for summer

Photo Julie Schopper

Photo Kristin Lafayette