Recent missions and pictures

In Farmington, Connecticut this motor vehicle accident brings both Life Stars to the scene on Route 4 by the Hillstead Museum. This is the third time I have photographed Life Star at this location for motor vehicle accidents. Seven people were transported to the hospital in this June 19th two car crash.

A flight nurse checks out a remote landing zone in Union, Connecticut after LIFESTAR is requested for a search for several missing people in the Bigalow Hollow State Park. In the picture on the right, the flight crew gets search information from one of the Union firefighters that had landed LIFESTAR in a field.

LIFE STAR I sits on the helipad while the overnite flight crew checks out the aircraft.

In the rear of LIFE STAR I sits Flight Nurse Gail Fetzer with the Intra-Aortic Ballon Pump. The Pump and its computer terminal is custom made to fit in the back of the helicopter, with barely enough room for the patient and Respiratory Therapist.

Here is LIFE STAR II on the ground with a U/Mass LIFE FLIGHT helicopter flying over it. This was taken in November 1997 at the Greene Airport in Warwick, Rhode Island.

The next series of pictures are from a rare isolette call on December 28, 1997. Here the flight crew are loading the isolette with attached ventilator into the back of LIFE STAR II. The weight of the isolette is approximately 250 lbs.

Here the crew has landed on a snowy, ice covered helipad at Day Kimball Hospital in Putnam, Connecticut, and are making their way up to the emergency room. Notice the sand truck preceeding the flight crew.

Flight RT, Janet Libera, and Flight Nurse Susan Dunn prepare the 1 lb. 10 oz. baby girl for the flight to U/Conn Health Center in Farmington, Connecticut.

After landing at U/Conn Health Center all hands are needed to remove the isolette from the helicopter and transport it to a waiting ambulance.

Hey!
No parking here!
A sign from the landing zone at Lawrence and Memorial Hospital in New London, Connecticut.

Here is LIFE STAR II at sunrise on the helipad

LIFE STAR I at sunrise