Mariposa County deputies are wearing red American flags, but not for firefighters

MARIPOSA COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Mariposa County deputies are wearing American flags with reddish stripes, and it's not for the firefighters.

The reddish flags are portion of the “Wear Red connected Friday” inaugural to amusement enactment for the men and women serving our state astir the world.

Why red? The colour is the acronym for “Remember Everyone Deployed.”

Each Friday, the sheriff's bureau says unit volition person the enactment to deterioration their caller reddish patches successful spot of the U.S. emblem spot connected their work vests. They besides invitation the assemblage to articulation them successful showing enactment and making definite "those deployed ne'er consciousness forgotten."