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AirLife is in the process of installing a crew building and According to a company press release, the decision
helicopter hangar next to the helipad at the 2391 N. Rob- to open an Air Life base in Lumberton came “after an
erts Ave. location, which the company has staffed with extensive review of the local area and its needs,” citing
four pilots, three flight nurses, three flight paramedics and a figure of more than 85 million U.S. residents who live
two mechanics. The company began operations earlier this more than an hour drive from a Level 1 or Level 2 trau-
month with its Eurocopter EC135 helicopter, with staff ini- ma center. Lumberton falls in that category, with Duke
tially sharing space in the Rescue Squad and a temporary University Medical Center, the closest trauma center,
camper. being two hours away by car. The AirLife base will also
serve surrounding communities.
Nestor “Rico” Rivera is one of the flight paramedics.
Originally from Fayetteville, he now calls Lumberton About Air Methods
home.
Air Methods (www.airmethods.com) is the leading air
“We handle any flights for critical patients that need to medical service, delivering lifesaving care to more than
be transported to a trauma center, and we also assist in 70,000 people every year. With nearly 40 years of air
inter-facility transports for specialty care, such as cardiac medical experience, Air Methods is the preferred partner
or stroke,” Rivera said. for hospitals and one of the largest community-based
providers of air medical services. United Rotorcraft is the
One of the flight nurses, Morgan Britt, said she began her Company’s products division specializing in the design
medical career with Southeastern Health, originally work- and manufacture of aeromedical and aerospace technol-
ing in the emergency room as a nurse. The Bladenboro ogy. Air Methods’ fleet of owned, leased or maintained
native was happy to see Chief Nursing Officer Taylor, aircraft features more than 450 helicopters and fixed
who first hired her back then. wing aircraft.

“It’s nice to be home doing this,” Britt said.

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