On the afternoon of May 17, 2004, Alan Brock was driving to his home in Chillicothe, Missouri, after a trip to Kansas City where he was visiting friends in the hospital.

While driving east on Highway 36, about fifteen minutes from home, Alan was suddenly struck head-on by ...
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An underlying theme for Missouri's rural EMS system is progress.  So much has improved in the last fifteen years that it would take a series of articles to cover it all.  Most important are the people behind the progress – the ones with the vision and stamina to take the idea of progress and turn it into reality for ...
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LifeFlight Eagle's aviation operator, PHI, has assigned Mark Tovar to serve  as aviation manager.  Born and raised in St. Joseph, Missouri, Mark enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1982 after high school.  While on a training mission one day, Mark recalls he was “dropped off in the middle of nowhe...
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In the 1970's I was working as a nurse's aide while in school to become a nurse.  One night I struggled to help an older gentleman out of bed.  He had suffered a stroke a few days earlier and his frustration about needing help was very evident.  Finally he blurted out, “I used to be mayor of this town. “   ...
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This year LifeFlight Eagle is going through significant changes to enhance our program.
One important change is our new air operator, Petroleum Helicopters Incorporated, (PHI).  Despite their name, PHI has served as the air operator for more than 80 air ambulance agencies nationwide for more than twenty years.

Many western Missouri residents will be heading for the lake over Memorial Day weekend.  For a lot of folks, that means traveling through Clinton Missouri, which is located along the intersection of highways 7 and 13.

 

On October 9, 2007, in a very rural part of Reynolds County, Missouri, a school bus carrying 32 elementary school children went out of control, rolling three times.  While every child was transported to area hospitals, more than a third of the children had to be transported by helicopter to area trauma centers for treatment...
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