Chopper

 

If you have a medical emergency here on the peninsula – whether it is accident or sickness – you can count on Eagle III to provide fast and safe transportation services to an appropriate medical facility by means of ground ambulance, rotary wing aircraft or fixed wing turbo prop or jet aircraft. 

Eagle III is on standby 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.  With the help of local EMS dispatch makes the decision as to the mode of transportation dependent upon the condition of the patient, distances and weather conditions.

We happen to live in the middle of the peninsula which generally keeps us in the flight path of the rotary wing aircraft (chopper).  The helicopter almost always flies directly over our house when dispatched to a remote location or conditions when ground transportation may be lengthy. 

Sometimes I feel like I have the same ‘sixth sense’ associated with the character Corporal Walter Eugene - Radar - O'Reilly in the film M*A*S*H, as well as the TV series.  I can tell when the chopper is approaching.  

Dispatched out of Green Bay you can learn more about Eagle III's rapid medical transportation services here. 

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If you have a medical emergency here on the peninsula – whether it is accident or sickness – you can count on Eagle III to provide fast and safe transportation services to an appropriate medical facility by means of ground ambulance, rotary wing aircraft or fixed wing turbo prop or jet aircraft. 

Eagle III is on standby 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.  With the help of local EMS dispatch makes the decision as to the mode of transportation dependent upon the condition of the patient, distances and weather conditions.
 

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We happen to live in the flight path of the helicopter - rotary wing aircraft.  The helicopter almost always flies directly over our house when dispatched to a remote location or conditions when ground transportation may be lengthy. 

Sometimes I feel like I have the same ‘sixth sense’ associated with the character Corporal Walter Eugene - Radar - O'Reilly in the film M*A*S*H, as well as the TV series.  I can tell when the chopper is approaching. 

Recently I was chilling-out in a deer stand minding my own business when my chopper antennae began to twitch.  And within moments the air ambulance came screaming overhead on a NE heading.   On the return trip I had the presence of mind to have my Flight Radar App open so I could track the travel time from point to point.  If the app is to be believed the chopper completed its transit from Sturgeon Bay to Green Bay in thirteen minutes. 

That’s impressive! 

While I hope I never have to avail myself of this service – it is comforting to know that these professionals stand ready to take action when called.
        

Chopper!

The girls and I were chilling on the porch having a beer when my spider sense started to tingle.   Yeah, I know I’m weird but I have the ability to sense or feel the vibrations of an approaching helicopter before the audible sound announces its arrival.  It is the only Super Hero Power I possess and of little use for anything except blogging about it.  It simply doesn't account for much.  Yet there was no mistaking the tingling - there was a chopper out to the southwest and it was incoming!   

I had enough foreboding warning to not only catch a screen grab of the Flight Radar track but I was able to photo the chopper (as it predictably) flew over the house. 

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When Eagle III air rescue makes a run to fetch someone further up the peninsula that happens to be in a really bad way the outward-bound flight path is almost always directly over our house.  I tell Jill we are a navigation point – she will tell you that it is all coincidence.  The return flight track will vary depending-upon returning a patient to Green Bay or Appleton.   In this instance the outbound action occurred just before 4 PM and the chopper returned (predictably over the house) in the direction of Green Bay just after 5 PM.  Hope things turn out OK.   

In case you are wondering about why anybody needs a chopper rescue around these parts it’s a not so very small matter of distance and the availability of medical services in rural America.  High level trauma and medical treatment is centralized in the major population centers such as Green Bay and the Fox Valley – a potentially multi-hour trip one-way by highway-bound ambulance if you suffered a serious farm machinery accident further up the peninsula. 

I sure hope that I never need to utilize the air ambulance service but it’s comforting to know that if you have a serious accident or medical event someone can guide that chopper into an adjacent field and airlift you to medical attention, fast! 

You can learn a whole lot more about Eagle III county rescue and air ambulance services here. 

Channeling Walter “Radar" O’Reilly……..

Edit to add:

Same date - 6:28 PM - Eagle III making another run - predictably directly overhead.

Eagle III

The Frau insists that I am wrong about this but I am convinced that the air ambulance based in Green Bay uses our house as a navigation landmark.  

She will tell you that the Eagle III chopper follows the four lane highway up the Door peninsula.  I will tell you that the four lane is further to the west and nothing else could account for the EMS air crew to pilot their aircraft directly over the house.  I have blogged about this before.  Just go to the labels on the left of the homepage.

Just this past weekend.

Heading northeast in a hurry.

And 28 minutes later heading back to Green Bay in a big hurry.

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I have no idea what the peninsula would do without this service as it's a minimum 90 to 120 minute drive from some of furthest communities to Green Bay.

If any of you pilots have a navigation explanation I would appreciate your chiming-in.

Eagle III - In a Hurry

Eagle III came cooking over the house more than 30 minutes ago and just made a return trip for Green Bay.

In a Big Hurry.

Betwixt all of this another chopper was cruising north from the southwest.

Wonder what's up.

We Got Choppers!

Sometimes I feel like I have a little bit of Walter "Radar" O'Reilly's blood running through my veins.  In the television series M*A*S*H he had an uncanny ability to hear the choppers coming before anybody else.

I've posted about this before. 

I could sense it coming and almost instantaneously Eagle III thundered over the house just a few minutes ago.

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Big hurry and heading directly for Green Bay.

Hope things turn out OK for whoever it was they had to fetch.

Eagle III

The air ambulance out of Green Bay is called Eagle III.  And when called to respond on the peninsula  the flight plan almost always brings the chopper right over the house.

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Being almost smack-dab in the middle of the peninsula I suppose that makes some sense. From the website:

County Rescue also has a network of over 80 medical staff functioning in our contracted, rural municipalities.  These personnel are licensed at all levels from medical first responder through paramedics.  These "first responders" are volunteers who respond from their homes to assist members of their communities in their time of need.  Responders are trained, supported, and medically equipped by County Rescue.  This system allows us to put advanced medical care at the patient's side within minutes, yet helps contain taxpayer costs.

Click on this link to learn more about the chopper.