{"id":13109,"date":"2016-08-17T07:46:53","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T11:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flightsafetynet.com\/?p=13109"},"modified":"2017-09-21T10:01:43","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T14:01:43","slug":"what-is-ems-flight-safety-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flightsafetynet.com\/what-is-ems-flight-safety-network\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is EMS Flight Safety Network"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2014And Why Should You Give A Crap About It?<\/span><\/h3>\n

Or, better yet…<\/p>\n

How can it help you…do what you love?<\/p>\n

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Let me explain with a story.<\/p>\n

I met a guy in a landing zone (LZ) once who had been a truck driver, a drug-dealer, and a preacher for the Jehovah’s Witnesses…<\/p>\n

He emerged from the treeline next to the LZ \u2014<\/span><\/span> where I had landed the helicopter minutes earlier.<\/p>\n

He marched right up to me, introduced himself and started telling me his life story. Not once did he ask about the helicopter or what I was doing there.<\/p>\n

I listened to him and did my best to maintain a calm, collected, ready-for-anything Life Flight pilot exterior.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

I wasn’t trying to\u00a0impress the guy. I did it\u00a0out of self-preservation and necessity.<\/p>\n

The “preacher” and I were the only ones left in the LZ. Everyone else had already departed to get the patient. It was a very “deliverance-like” scene.<\/p>\n

Internally, I was pretty concerned about who else might creep out of the treeline.<\/p>\n

But the encounter ended uneventfully when my crew returned with ground EMS and the patient. Ten minutes later we were flying\u00a0to the closest trauma center.<\/p>\n

What’s The Point?<\/span><\/h3>\n

My point\u00a0is the diversity of people you meet in EMS Flight Safety Network.<\/p>\n

Flying Helicopter Emergency Medical Services (HEMS) is like\u00a0the bar scene in the original Star Wars movie. You get to see “all walks of life.”<\/p>\n

On the same day, not long after touching down on the hospital rooftop, I listened to an emergency room doctor explain how he bought a Cherokee six airplane\u00a0to fly his family back and forth from Martha’s Vineyard.<\/p>\n

Later, a hospital security guard mentioned his son just started Army flight school, and the fuel guy shared his political advice with me.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Why does it matter?<\/span><\/p>\n

It matters because people matter.<\/p>\n

People are the common thread.<\/p>\n

People make EMS Flight Safety Network…work.<\/p>\n

The purpose of the network is a ground-up team approach to keeping air medical safe. Look at the list of EMS Flight Safety Network jobs and see where you fit in.<\/p>\n

EMS Flight Safety Network Jobs<\/span><\/h3>\n

Here is a list of EMS Flight Safety Network jobs:<\/p>\n