Re: Where were you when...

[Dave Milsted <davem83@home.com>]

NJ's programs (NorthSTAR and SouthSTAR), were only grounded for about 4 
hours. They had permission to fly, but the airport wouldn't let them take 
off. Our aircraft are owned and operated by the NJ State Police. They put a 
total of 5 aircraft in service to handle medivac patients. They staged on 
the NJ side of the river across from NY. We were given special squawk 
codes, from NORAD, to use when flying so we would not be shot down by 
F-16s. By 7pm the 1st night we were told to stand down. I know the 
SouthSTAR crew never touched a patient. I belive NorthSTAR did a 
inter-hospital or two.

Dave Milsted
Flight Medic
SouthSTAR

At 08:19 PM 9/13/2001, you wrote:
>OK, I'm going to go out on a limb here and propose that we try something
>we haven't really done before here on this list. Every team in the nation
>was grounded for a time and I'd like to invite people to talk about how
>their program handled the situation. I'd also like to hear any anecdotes
>from flight crews in the New York and Washington areas that would be
>willing to tell their stories as far as what role they have played and
>continue to play.
>
>This is an effort to both gather these stories for historical
>significance, as well as to offer an outlet for stress management. Also,
>while it remains to be seen, I'm not certain that the air medical
>community was able to contribute to their full potential in this situation
>and making these stories available to our industry leaders will help
>develop a plan for participating in future national emergencies. It also
>sounds like some programs may have been more grounded than others, with
>some unable to fly at all, some only with certain patients, depending on
>which part of the country, etc. There's a survey on this point on
>FlightWeb, BTW.
>
>Couple of proposed guidelines in this exercise... If you reply to this or
>any other message on this topic, please delete text that is not your own
>so we don't send the same stuff repeatedly. Also, please consider patient
>confidentiality issues and company policies if they apply to discussing
>this sort of thing publically. We certainly don't want anyone to get in
>trouble.
>
>Later
>
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