(Australia)-Careflight has appealed for the return of a safety strobe light, stolen during a crew's treatment of an elderly woman injured at Auburn in Sydney's west.

Careflight arrived in darkness and set up four strobe lights around a helicopter as a safety warning while they treated the woman who had been hit by a car.

Regarding USA TODAY's misleading article "Medevac industry resisting upgrades," I'd like to address the limitations of the years-long regulatory process and what has been done to make medevac transport safer (News, Aug. 19).
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As an emergency physician and co-medical director of a hospital-based medical transport program, I stand at the crossroads of medicine and aviation. Moreover, I have gained additional insights via leading the Association of Air Medical Services (AAMS), which has represented pilots, medics, nurses, doctors, hospitals and manufacturers for 30 years.

Travis Given shudders to think what life in Northern Ontario would be like without a reliable transport medicine service.

A flight paramedic with ORNGE, Givens said it can mean the difference between life and death for patients in many far North communities, whose access to quality medical care would be severely hampered through isolation and the absence of doctors, equipment and supplies.

MEDSERV Jamaica Limited on Thursday launched its air ambulance service for the island, operating under the brand JamaicaMed, with junior industry minister Michael Stern saying that the new service will allow access to affordable air ambulance service to just about anyone.

EDMONTON - In an Envision Edmonton commercial, the young woman looks into the camera and says: "If this airport weren't here, I don't know if I'd be alive today."

She was five when an air ambulance whisked her from her hometown to the City Centre Airport, a trip she says saved her life. Now she is volunteering for the campaign to stop council from closing the downtown airport.

Authorities are trying to determine who shined lasers into the cockpits of two separate STAT MedEvac helicopters Saturday night, according to a Federal Aviation Administration spokesman.

KOSCIUSKO — MedStat Emergency Medical Services has added MedStatAir, a Euro Copter 350HS, to its fleet to provide increased service to the area.

Officials of MedStat brought the helicopter to Kosciusko last Saturday for display and to instruct first responders in its use.

It's a sight no father should have to see: His 7-year-old girl locked in a neck brace, fastened to a stretcher, being rushed by nurses and paramedics below the screaming blades of a BO 105 helicopter. On Thursday, Aug. 19, that's exactly what Randy Pimentel of Sutter Creek had to witness. Yet, as the blaring pound of the chopper's C30 engines began kicking gusts of dirt and garbage into the air, until Pimentel had to shield his eyes, the father knew CALSTAR would be racing through the skies to help his little girl at lightening speed.

(Reuters) - Private equity firm Bain Capital LLC has reached a deal to buy Air Medical Group Holdings, the largest independent U.S. provider of emergency air medical services, for around $1 billion, a source familiar with the matter said on Thursday.

Kansas City, MO
A wood duck slammed into a LifeFlight Eagle helicopter 2,000 feet up in the air Wednesday night, breaking out a large section of windshield.

Flight paramedic Kent Shutt heard a loud pop, then felt air rushing through the aircraft as it flew about 150 mph through the dark sky above the eastern edge of Kansas City.

The helicopter shook, just for a split second, as the impact startled the pilot, Shutt said Thursday.