The local Care Flight helicopter — a Eurocopter AS350 B3 — hovers recently over Lake Tahoe. It is specially built to handle well at high altitudes and in windy conditions. It can land on a small footprint, such as a mountain top or high meadow.

Competition among medical helicopter companies continues to sharpen across the Inland Northwest as Life Flight Network opens its second northern Idaho base in two years – a region that for two decades has been served by Spokane-based Northwest MedStar. The expansion by Life Flight into Sandpoint is a multimillion-dollar venture for the Oregon air-ambulance service. It will station one helicopter ...

An ambulance was called to meet a flight arriving at Miami International Airport on Thursday afternoon because of a person with a medical emergency onboard, Miami-Dade Fire Rescue said.  Airport representatives said the patient was aboard an American Airlines flight arriving from Chicago.  Miami-Dade Fire Rescue met the plane at the gate.  One person from the plane was taken by ambulance to a ...