Mighty big xmas gift! San Benito, Guatemala received a 1990 Mack Pumper fire engine from San Juan Bautista, San Benito County. It was loaded onto a U.S. Air Force cargo plane at Travis Air Base on Dec. 11.

“They rely on a volunteer fire department to serve 54,000 citizens and do not have a fire engine,” San Juan Bautista City Manager Don Reynolds said.

The firetruck has an automatic transmission, seats four firefighters and has a pumping rate of 1,500 gallons per minute. It was donated by San Jose to San Juan Bautista in 2011, replacing a 1980s-era engine.

While in storage, the truck became no longer able to meet California emissions standards, and so unable to be purchased by a California buyer, making it a perfect donor to non-emissions countries.

https://benitolink.com/san-juan-bautista-donates-obsolete-fire-engine