Flight for Life Colorado has seen injury rates soar over the past two ski seasons, and with the thick of summer ahead, rescuers could be busier than ever.
Celebrating a fifty-year history in 2022, Flight for Life — the nation's oldest civilian emergency air ambulance program — is still managing to stay busy in its home state of Colorado.
The program — which turned fifty in October 2022 — has had to expand over the years to keep up with the demand of tourism and growing popularity of high-adrenaline sports and activities such as skiing, rock climbing, mountain biking, whitewater rafting and more. Colorado's population was also less than half of what it is now when Flight for Life formed in 1972.
"So that was a huge area to be covered for emergency medical transportation, and the Eisenhower Tunnel wasn't complete yet," Mayer says."So there was concern about how we were going to get patients to Denver quickly with only one bore of that tunnel open and Loveland Pass being a challenge to traverse if the roads weren't great."The 1976 Olympics never actually made it to Denver — voters decided not to provide the funding to make it happen.
Flight for Life began at the old St. Anthony hospital with a single Alouette III helicopter, which was chosen for its ability to perform well in high altitude, notes Mayer. It was the first civilian service of its kind in both Colorado and the United States. Despite its overall success, Flight for Life has had one issue of conflict with its original on-the-ground colleagues in Denver, says current flight nurse Dan Gormley:"We will not land in the metro area," he says.
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