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A HALO rescue helicopter is seen in this News file photo. The rescue service made its first trip to the Brooks Health Centre on Monday, Nov. 12, 2018 following a motor vehicle collision on Highway 36 just north of Brooks.
Medicine Hat News
HALO made its first trip to Brooks Health Centre on Monday after a car on the highway was T-boned.
The collision occurred on Highway 36, just north of Brooks.
At 8:38 a.m., the air ambulance service tweeted it was dispatched to a “scene call near Brooks.”
By 9:35 a.m., HALO tweeted that it was “enroute to Foothills Hospital with the patient.”
According to HALO’s chief pilot Steve Harmer, the 55-year-old female driver was taken to Foothills Hospital in Calgary in 90 minutes, where she’s in stable condition but with potentially life-threatening injuries.
She was initially taken by ground ambulance to the Brooks hospital.
“She’s doing OK now,” said Harmer.
At the same time, HALO was called to another motor vehicle accident nine miles southeast of Lethbridge, which STARS — whose closest base is in Calgary — took care of.
HALO was able to land at the Brooks hospital for the first time, due to its new helicopter’s twin engine.
“The Brooks hospital requires two-engine helicopters, so the old HALO couldn’t get into Brooks,” Harmer said. “The new one can.”
