Grande Prairie rotary clubs drive donated specialty vehicles to Mexico [Video]

Sixteen Grande Prairie rotary club members are taking a road trip to Mazatlán, Mexico, in eight specialty vehicles to be donated to local groups there.

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The eight-day, 5,500-kilometre journey includes six school buses, a fire truck and an ambulance.

“We’re helping save lives; the extent of it is unreal when you get down there and you see what it actually accomplishes,” said Mark Marcotte, co-leader of the Highway to Mexico project.

The vehicles are loaded up with equipment including sports jerseys, firefighting gear, medical supplies, wheelchairs and, this year, an x-ray machine.

Norm Lafleur, Highway to Mexico co-leader, said the trip has helped students for years and saved lives with medical and firefighting equipment.

“The very first trip I went on is what sold me on this project,” said Marcotte.

“I was driving a fire …