A retired Naperville ambulance has a new home in one of the bays of the Cherkasy Fire Department in central Ukraine.
A retired Naperville ambulance sits in a bay at the Cherkasy Fire Department in central Ukraine. Originally destined for Cancun, the deal was nixed when the Mexican resort city failed to pick up the vehicle after more than a year.
The ambulance, purchased by the city in October 2009, used in active service for seven years and then as a reserve vehicle for four years, had been destined for Cancun. But after more than a year, the Mexican resort city had yet to make arrangements to pick it up, blaming the COVID-19 pandemic and a change in the local government.
“Then add on top of that, missile strikes that destroy neighborhoods, buildings and cause explosions,” Mason said.The donated equipment is essential in dealing with the challenges, Mason said, especially with the onset of winter and a sketchy power grid.“They’re dealing with an uptick or an increase in structure fires because people are having their own generators. You have gasoline; you have combustible materials. You have people that don’t do things properly,” he said.
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