Alberta ambulances convoy throughout the city during the 2006 Operation Christmas Child gift box collection. (photo by Grant Therrien)

Medics across Canada are now preparing for this year’s event which takes place in November.

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An ambulance leaves a gate of the Huayuan Mining Co. mine where dozens of security guards and police officers keep watch in Xintai, eastern China’s Shandong province, Sunday, Aug 19, 2007.

An ambulance leaves the Crandall Canyon coal mine 16 Aug near Huntington, Utah. Efforts to burrow through to six miners buried beneath a Utah mountain were suspended indefinitely on Friday following a tragic cave-in that left three rescuers dead and six injured, officials said.

A Crandall mine rescue worker injured after a cave-in at thr rescue site in Huntington, Utah is rushed from a medical helicopter and into a waiting ambulance at the University of Utah Medical Center in Salt Lake City Thursday, Aug. 16, 2007.

A helicopter lands at the University of Utah Medical Center with one of the injured Crandall Canyon mine rescue workers Thursday, Aug. 16, 2007, in Salt Lake City.