June 7, 2010
ICEFIELD TOUR COMPANY HELPS STARS HANDLE EMERGENCIES
Refuelling in Canadian Rockies Gives Air Ambulance Chance to Help More
Victims While Icefield Helicopter Tours Evacuates a Patient
CLINE RIVER, Alberta – World famous Icefield Helicopter Tours in the
Canadian Rockies helped the STARS air ambulance handle two emergencies
Sunday.
Icefield Helicopter Tours, renowned for its spectacular sightseeing, yoga,
hiking, horseback and fishing experiences, jumped to the aid of STARS to
provide refuelling when the air ambulance service needed to handle an
unexpected second major accident.
STARS was initially called out to the West Country off the Icefield Parkway
between Banff and Jasper to transport a patient injured while quading. It
was then unexpectedly required to divert to Field, BC for a motor vehicle
accident, necessitating emergency refuelling of the helicopter at the tour
company’s Cline River Heliport, located one and a half hours west of Rocky
Mountain House.
Icefield Helicopter Tours voluntarily placed their own A-Star 350BA
helicopter on standby for the quad accident and were later called upon to
evacuate the patient and transport him to hospital.
“STARS does such a tremendous job we were really pleased to provide an
opportunity that allowed the doctors to help more injured people,” said
Ralph Sliger, owner of the tour company. “Now we have been called on to
evacuate the original patient. We always have excitement around here with
visitors awed by their experiences but this was another kind of rewarding
experience.”
Icefield Helicopter Tours offers daily heli-sightseeing tour, heli-hiking,
heli-yoga and heli-horseback from its Cline River Heliport along highway 11
just east of the Saskatchewan River Crossing, and is the closest Heliport to
the Columbia Icefield.
Contact Information
Ralph Sliger – Ralph@icefieldheli
1.403.721.2100
"THE MOST POWERFUL EXPERIENCE IN THE ROCKIES."
Icefield Heli Tours Canada (since 1999), - Sightseeing, Hiking, Yoga,
Weddings and Fishing
Kananaskis Heli Tours Canada (since 2009)- Sightseeing
Kananaskis Mountain Helicopters Ltd (since 1994) - Charters, Medivac and
Forest Fires
Heli Productions (since 1994) - Film, Movies, Commercials and Documentaries
Stars Ambulance at Icefield Heli pad in June 2010
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