Manx Support for Ukraine

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00:00I'm Jim from Manc Support for Ukraine.

00:03I'm Anastasia from Manc Support for Ukraine.

00:05I'm Carolina from Manc Support for Ukraine.

00:07Okay, what we have here behind us is a fire engine

00:11that we have been kindly donated by an anonymous buyer

00:18for us to send this fire engine out to Mikhailiv in Ukraine.

00:23The fire station in Ukraine was flattened during the initial invasion in 2022

00:33and the chief fire officer had a bullet miss her head by about two centimetres.

00:40Even though the fire station was levelled,

00:43she carried on doing her work as much as possible and as professional as possible.

00:50Now, Mikhailiv has really hard winters too,

00:55so in conjunction with another charity in the UK,

00:59we're raising funds to build a new shelter for this fire engine as well.

01:04The fire engine that they have at this moment in time is from 1964.

01:10That's the only fire engine that they could salvage out of all the wreckage that they had.

01:17It's still doing its job, but they need something more efficient, something powerful,

01:23and this fire engine behind you is a pumping station.

01:27It carries water, it doesn't have to go to water sources or anything like that.

01:32So it's an absolutely fantastic thing, a fantastic find,

01:36and thank you to Justin at ELS for bringing it to our attention

01:41and helping us out massively with it.

01:45And when will this get to Ukraine?

01:47We're hoping to get it out there at the end of the month.

01:50I will be driving it out there personally with a few other drivers,

01:54and hopefully it will be fully loaded with humanitarian equipment, medical aid,

01:59and any other humanitarian aid that we can acquire.