In the cold weather outside Sweetwater on Jan. 7, Alicia Balliet placed a sticker in memory of her late husband, Eric, on the back of an ambulance bound for Mexico.
The ambulance is the 19th donated from One World Medics and after a blessing in both English and Spanish would soon be driven to Arizona near the Mexico border by Fort Wayne firefighters Jerry Shultz and Bryan Peterson, who is also executive director of One World Medics.
"We're here at Sweetwater because they've supported us with our fundraising efforts in the past," Peterson said. "The whole Hispanic community and many other people in Fort Wayne have been behind us from the very beginning." Each and every ambulance carries the logo of Fire Station No. 6 and a sticker in memory of Eric Balliet, a fire department captain who died in 2017 during a training session.