Flight For Life Colorado, announced that beginning Sunday, January 3, 2010, helicopter coverage from St. Anthony Summit Medical Center mountain base in Frisco, Colorado will increase to 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

	Press Release Release and Fact Sheet on Flight For Life Colorado (31 KB)

Man Survives Dangerous Emergency on Hunting Trip
The hunting trip of a lifetime in the Colorado Rockies takes a near deadly turn for a Columbia man.

Pre-existing agreements between Flight For Life Colorado and local Sheriff’s Departments to provide this shuttle-type service for their team members. The sheriff of the county the mission is in must approve Lift Ticket operations before the helicopter will be launched.

Medical flight programs in Colorado already have embraced technology, like night-vision goggles and terrain-awareness warning systems, that federal officials are debating as part of a crackdown on the medical helicopter industry.

Susan McGlew's big brother was always the adventurous one.
He's the one who moved out to the Wild West, rode the rapids, skied the slopes and left a comfortable hospital job to become a flight nurse on a medevac helicopter in Colorado.

Scott Wilson hunkered down in a snow cave and waited. Outside, he could hear the whoop-whoop-whoop of a helicopter. Above him, he heard the crunch of footsteps.

Ryan Mahany, 29, is an Army helicopter pilot who has served in Afghanistan. His dad, Patrick Mahany, is a long-time Flight for Life helicopter pilot who flew in the Vietnam War.

ALAMOSA — Looking back on a tremendously busy 2008 of volunteer searches and rescues, members of the Alamosa Volunteer Search and Rescue............

MICHAEL BRUNKO, MD, NAMED CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER FLIGHT FOR LIFE COLORADO

SUMMIT COUNTY - A woman slid 1,000 feet as she was partially buried in an avalanche on Friday morning.

VAIL PASS - Not many get as excited about working as Kenya and her colleagues do. They are a group of avalanche rescue dogs taking part in a massive training exercise with handlers like Sy Meheen.

Story from 9NEWS

AURORA - While the new University of Colorado Hospital has valet parking, private patient rooms and national rankings, some experts question if the placement of its helipad puts patient care at risk.

9Wants to Know story:

A 78-year-old Pueblo West woman reported missing Friday night was rescued from the bottom of a ravine Saturday afternoon.............

Article from Pueblo Chieftain

ASPEN — A 23-year-old man sustained injuries to his head and hip early Saturday when he dislodged a boulder on Pyramid Peak and tumbled nearly 60 feet.......

Article from Summit Daily News

Article from Aspen Times

Article from Aspen Daily News

For 35 years, Colorado’s seriously ill and injured have been transported to the care they need by the nation’s first civilian, hospital-based emergency medical helicopter service, regardless of their financial condition.................

Article from The Pueblo Chieftain

Denver area Flight Respiratory Therapist, Justin Misuraca, publishes article about Flight for Life Colorado in the 2007 Summer issue of the AARC's Surface & Air Transport Bulletin. Read this article

Newsradio 850 KOA traffic reporter Amelia Earhart interviews Flight For Life Colorado staff

It's all in a day's work for Flight For Life pilots, flight nurses, flight paramedics and flight emts. Amelia Earhart interviews Flight For Life Director, Kathleen Mayer and pilot Sean Sebern.

See more at the Newsradio 850 site.

	850 KOA interview (13.3 MB)