Outrage after guests wearing KKK costumes attend N.S. fire hall dance [Video]

A deputy fire chief in Cape Breton has apologized after some guests attended a Halloween dance at a fire hall dressed as members of the Ku Klux Klan.

Photos circulating on social media from Saturday’s event at the North Sydney Firefighters Club show four people wearing white sheets and white pointed hoods — garb synonymous with the American white supremacist group. One of the partygoers is holding a large cross.

“I will assure you that we are all hurting in our hearts today that we have disappointed a community that we work so hard to make better and protect,” Wade Gouthro, the deputy fire chief in North Sydney, wrote in a Facebook post.

Gouthro declined to be interviewed.

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