First responders in Montgomery County will donate close to 10,000 toys Sunday to children in area hospitals.
This is the 13th year Plymouth Community Ambulance has organized "Operation Kids Christmas Kids Toy Run." It's a cause near and dear to the chief's heart.
The event has grown in the past decade and now includes dozens of first responder companies from across the county and around 70 local businesses. Each year, the company collects toys in its bay. Once all the apparatus arrive, first responders load their vehicles with the toys ride out in a procession to first Bryn Mawr and then St. Christopher's Hospital for the mass donation.
"Where did we get this decommissioned ambulance?" Angela McFarland asked her son Jake, who owns Coffee Closet with Barista Jake.Jake has autism and Plymouth Community Ambulance has been vital getting his business on the road. The decommissioned ambulance now serves as his mobile coffee shop."It says that they understand community and they put a premium on the people that live in this area that they serve and that's why so many people want to give back to them," she said.
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