Yah know it is serious when you see this!

Mid day the long tone pierced the airwaves on the squawk boxes in North Andover. With companies out of quarters on other calls the dispatcher keyed up calling the Senior Officer on duty getting the marching orders, then rattled off the dispatch for an MVA on Turnpike involving a motorcycle.

Units began signing on as they raced thier way towards the scene. As the Q's cleared the way towards the scene dispatch came across the radio advising the units "Fire Alarm to the companies PD reporting open leg wound and head injury!" The senior officer in route called back asking dispatch to check on the availability of Boston MedFlight.

One by one units signed off at the scene and it did not take long before the request to be made "Dispatch call in MedFlight!" to paraphrase. After a brief moment of confusion about useable Landing Zones or what is known as LZ's Engine 1 headed to Reynolds Field to secure the LZ for the Helicopter, which had to be done in a hurry because the ETA of got shorten from 15 minutes to just under 6.

"Engine 1 to Command, MedFlight is on the ground!" came across the radios. At this point the patient was just being loaded into the back of the buggy for transport from the scene to the LZ. An update came across the squawk box from the ambulance to the awaiting MedFlight Crew, to paraphrase "We have a patient with a partially amputated leg, chest and head injuries.." The MedFlight crews acknowledge back and within seconds the ambulance pulled up to the LZ.

The MedFlight climbed into the back to begin thier treatment of the patient and preparation for transfer and transport in the helicopter. Minutes later the back doors of the buggy opened out came the patient on the stretcher, crews brought over the stretcher from the helicopter placed it beside the patient did the transfer, then under the careful eye of the fligth crew North Andover fire fighter wheeled the patient to the back clamshell doors.

With the patient inside, the flight crew did thier walk around of the bird and climbed in you could hear the pilot ramp up the engines. After a minute up could see the blades begin flexing up under load and you could not only see that the bird was about to go skids up but hear the chopping sounds of the blades get loader and feel the air as it rush down through the blades and out at you as the helicopter took flight.

The pilot got skids up turned the body of the bird under the blades to check for obstructions then went full throttle up and out of the LZ making a wide circle around the LZ heading to a trauma center in Boston.

Great job by all!