If you're driving around the Pittsburgh area today, chances are you'll see firefighters holding up a boot at several intersections, and it's not because they're missing a shoe; they're hoping you'll help.

They're filling the boots to raise money for children with muscular dystrophy.

"We collect for muscular dystrophy, it's a great cause, and all the money stays here to benefit kids," said Captain Chuck Lewis of the Pittsburgh Bureau of Fire.

It's a part of a tradition that has been going strong since 1954, when the International Association of Firefighters made the Muscular Dystrophy Association its official charity.

"Twenty years now, and my father used to do it, and my grandfather used to do it," Lewis said. "He started this in the Pittsburgh area back in 1959."

That legacy is still

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