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non-critical Sparwood Health Centre patient was airlifted from Sparwood Secondary School and Frank J Mitchell Elementary School’s shared field last Friday afternoon. Sparwood Fire Chief Jim Jones said that at approximately 1:05 p.m.,
the Sparwood Fire Department received a call from STARS Air Ambulance that a helicopter would be arriving in less than five minutes. STARS Air Ambulance spokesperson Mike Haska said that typically patients are airlifted from another location in Sparwood, but the STARS medical personnel involved in the airlift determined
that the field would be the best location in this instance. The Sparwood Fire Department responded to the call, landing the helicopter on the field. A nurse and doctor from the helicopter were then transported by ambulance to the Sparwood Health Centre to stabilize the patient for airlift.
“At the time, the patient was not critical,” Jones said. “They just needed to do certain procedures to prepare him for the air.” Jones added that the patient was awake, conscious and talking. Once the individual was stabilized, he was put into an ambulance, loaded onto the helicopter and taken to Calgary.