WEBVTT 00:00.580 --> 00:02.358 Friday morning was probably the 00:02.358 --> 00:04.580 quietest I've seen . There were four of 00:04.580 --> 00:06.524 us in the building and that became 00:07.100 --> 00:08.989 everybody's . So enough on Friday 00:08.989 --> 00:11.044 afternoon , we got a call . A little 00:11.044 --> 00:13.100 after two . And I go , it's arrest . 00:13.100 --> 00:15.210 You call now . Being here for two 00:15.210 --> 00:17.266 months . I didn't know like , Well , 00:17.266 --> 00:19.377 wait , rescue people , right ? That's 00:19.377 --> 00:21.840 what we do . This is a big deal . So I 00:21.840 --> 00:24.270 got the call at 2 15 that we're having 00:24.270 --> 00:26.214 something come up for a search and 00:26.214 --> 00:28.437 rescue kind of gather all the personnel 00:28.437 --> 00:30.548 trying to get a flight ready . And as 00:30.548 --> 00:30.140 soon as that happened , I passed flight 00:30.140 --> 00:32.362 operations over toe Tenet research came 00:32.362 --> 00:34.584 down pre flight of the aircraft . I got 00:34.584 --> 00:36.584 a phone call from one of our pilots 00:36.584 --> 00:38.960 here , Lieutenant Jones , and he said 00:38.960 --> 00:41.071 that we have a real world mission and 00:41.071 --> 00:43.127 they're trying get a crew together , 00:43.127 --> 00:45.349 dropped everything I was doing and grab 00:45.349 --> 00:47.571 my stuff , and I came in tow . Find out 00:47.571 --> 00:47.260 that we're picking up somebody off of 00:47.270 --> 00:49.326 Spruce Mountain that had fallen from 00:49.326 --> 00:51.159 the fire tower . This particular 00:51.159 --> 00:53.159 mission is probably one of the more 00:53.159 --> 00:55.214 difficult missions that we do . Ah , 00:55.214 --> 00:57.270 hoist operation is considered a high 00:57.270 --> 00:59.381 risk operation . Fortunately , we had 00:59.381 --> 01:02.970 just finished our training currency 01:02.970 --> 01:04.803 week prior , so we're all pretty 01:04.803 --> 01:08.600 current in it . But still , it's a very 01:08.600 --> 01:12.560 difficult task . A small area , the top 01:12.560 --> 01:14.171 of his mountain has a pretty 01:14.171 --> 01:16.227 predominant fire tower on it , which 01:16.227 --> 01:18.171 kind of makes it a little bit more 01:18.171 --> 01:20.338 difficult to do a voice because you're 01:20.338 --> 01:22.227 cabling down . You're looking for 01:22.227 --> 01:24.227 things like that tower trees , that 01:24.227 --> 01:26.282 with the obstacles and soon we can't 01:26.282 --> 01:28.393 disable Hover . That door came open , 01:28.393 --> 01:31.050 your medic one down . He was on the 01:31.050 --> 01:33.161 ground more than within minutes out , 01:33.161 --> 01:35.780 but we got there literally less than 01:35.790 --> 01:37.846 five minutes after we got there . So 01:37.846 --> 01:39.846 the hard part , obviously was , was 01:39.846 --> 01:42.012 getting the skate up safely . This was 01:42.012 --> 01:44.123 the first live scared mission Vermont 01:44.123 --> 01:46.290 has ever done . So we trained for this 01:46.290 --> 01:48.401 scenario all the time . When it comes 01:48.401 --> 01:50.401 down to reality , there's an actual 01:50.401 --> 01:52.623 person that as far as we know , I had a 01:52.623 --> 01:54.679 broken back and possible broken that 01:54.679 --> 01:54.590 pretty good hoist in a confined area . 01:55.200 --> 01:57.256 The other voice operator , myself on 01:57.256 --> 01:59.422 the back , along with a medic , got to 01:59.422 --> 02:01.367 put overtraining right to work and 02:01.367 --> 02:03.589 pretty windy up there . But you got the 02:03.589 --> 02:05.422 mission done . We've done such a 02:05.422 --> 02:07.589 fantastic job of training as crews for 02:07.589 --> 02:10.520 so long that it almost felt like second 02:10.520 --> 02:12.742 nature . It was a brand new thing , but 02:12.742 --> 02:14.576 it still felt like second nature 02:14.576 --> 02:16.631 because we've practiced so much . It 02:16.631 --> 02:18.853 could have been any any five folks from 02:18.853 --> 02:21.076 this unit , and it would have gone just 02:21.076 --> 02:23.076 as well once the next operation was 02:23.076 --> 02:25.242 done . It felt amazing knowing that we 02:25.242 --> 02:27.298 had the patient in the aircraft safe 02:27.298 --> 02:27.160 and sound . And now we know that we can 02:27.160 --> 02:29.520 get her to UPM within about 35 minutes 02:29.520 --> 02:31.280 of flight time compared to the 02:31.290 --> 02:33.401 treacherous journey down the mountain 02:33.401 --> 02:35.568 she would have to take and strapped to 02:35.568 --> 02:37.679 a backboard . It just would have been 02:37.679 --> 02:40.012 more injuries to the patient themselves . 02:40.012 --> 02:41.901 I've been a member of the Vermont 02:41.901 --> 02:44.012 international guy for 39 years , have 02:44.012 --> 02:46.123 been proud of mission that we've done 02:46.123 --> 02:45.870 of the deployments that we've done in 02:45.880 --> 02:48.102 of all the people that have worked with 02:48.102 --> 02:50.047 and it's a team effort between the 02:50.047 --> 02:52.680 pilots , the crew , flight operations 02:53.070 --> 02:55.292 Refuelers , our maintenance personnel . 02:55.730 --> 02:57.563 There's a lot of people that are 02:57.563 --> 02:59.786 involved in making sure this mission go 02:59.786 --> 03:01.952 off . So it was a big team effort with 03:01.952 --> 03:03.841 a lot of people involved . I just 03:03.841 --> 03:06.060 really want to think that crew on the 03:06.060 --> 03:08.420 ground that got their stabilized and 03:08.680 --> 03:10.847 made this happen . It made it easy for 03:10.847 --> 03:13.069 us that waas for us to do what we dio . 03:13.069 --> 03:15.236 Somebody has to be having a pretty bad 03:15.236 --> 03:17.236 day . But the fact that we have the 03:17.236 --> 03:19.291 opportunity to be there on help make 03:19.291 --> 03:21.291 somebody's really bad day better is 03:21.291 --> 03:23.730 really humbling in nature way . All 03:23.730 --> 03:25.952 appreciate the opportunity every day to 03:25.952 --> 03:25.680 come in and do it .