Amazon workers in Fresno train Santa's next generation of helpers

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Amazon employees successful Fresno are helping to guarantee Christmas presents crossed the state get to their destinations successful time, and present they're getting assistance from their ain families.

Many of the workers' ain children got a backstage circuit of the 800,000 quadrate ft installation successful Southwest Fresno. It's wherever implicit 3,500 workers from the Central Valley enactment year-round to present thing and everything Amazon offers. And this clip of year, the employees are helping vacation wishes travel true.

"They're the ones that packages get delivered to the radical ordering them successful a precise timely manner anterior to Christmas," said Fresno Mayor Jerry Dyer.

And now, they are teaching their children what it takes to beryllium 1 of Santa's helpers -- the kids adjacent got to assistance sort, pack, and nonstop disconnected packages close successful Fresno's Amazon Fulfillment Centre.

Working rapidly and with attraction is thing Amazon employees are utilized to doing year-round.

"We trust connected them heavy for the - not lone bundle delivery, but also, they lend to our income tax, our gross for the City of Fresno," said Dyer.

But it wasn't each enactment for Santa's littlest helpers. They got to spot however the institution helps employees person amusive with antithetic themes and games passim the year.

"Part of the crippled that we've been having with the associates... the Polar Express has been the theme," said the facility's Process Engineer, Ken Dandy. "There's a batch of games and prizes we springiness retired that are portion of the aforesaid theme. And so, we transportation it implicit to our arrogant genitor event."

To apical it each off, the parents and kids got 1 of the champion rewards this season... a sojourn from Santa!