Araujo says usually their ambulances are associated with bad times, sick or injured people being transferred, but Sunday night, there were toys on the stretchers instead.

``When they weren't running it as a hearse, they could put a light on the top and a stretcher in the back and run it as an ambulance,'' Burkham adds.

CentraCare EMT Tracey Watson began Stuff the Ambulance 16 years ago as a way to provide new toys for children to unwrap on Dec. 25.