Winnipeg, Manitoba medic John Mackay assists in loading ambulance with gift boxes during 2006’s Operation Christmas Child. EMS units from across Canada participated in the event. This year’s collection is on November 5/6.

A paramedic transports an injured man following the gun-battle between Pakistani security forces and militants, at a local hospital in Mingora in Pakistan’s Swat district, bordering Afghanistan, Friday, Oct. 26, 2007.

An elderly woman is lifted into an ambulance after having respiratory problems caused by smoke from the San Diego wildfires, at the Del Mar Fairgrounds evacuation center Tuesday Oct. 23, 2007 in San Diego.