On Tuesday, August 30, 2005, LifeNet received a request from Tulane Medical Center in New Orleans to assist air medical evacuations from their facility. Their facility was completely isolated by water and no ground transport was possible. Their lower floors were flooding and their generator was failing. They had 140 patients including critical patients on ventilators.
LifeNet dispatched 3 aircraft: one from Huntsville Alabama (4 hours away); another from Atlanta Georgia (4 hours away); and the third from Tallahassee Florida (2 hours away).Read More...